Senior Product Security Engineer

AlphaSense, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to lead secure AI-native product design and governance across the platform. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and product teams to embed security by design throughout the lifecycle.

The role covers AI security enablement, secure architecture, threat modeling, and customer-facing assurance, with mentorship and leadership to foster a security-first culture.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years in product, application, or cloud security engineering.
• Deep understanding of secure SDLC, threat modeling, and secure architecture design.
• Ability to read and review code to inform threat models and design reviews.
• Experience securing AI/ML pipelines, data workflows, and model-serving infrastructure, with working knowledge of AI/LLM security (prompt injection, model integrity, provenance).
• Proven expertise with cloud security concepts and best practices across multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with encryption fundamentals — symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, TLS/mTLS, key management, and secrets handling.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns in modern applications: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, and ABAC.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional security initiatives — partnering with engineering, product, and compliance to embed security into roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and align stakeholders across boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Architect and enforce security controls for AI/ML systems.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific attack vectors.
• Implement model provenance, integrity, and auditability controls.
• Align AI security with governance and compliance teams against frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
• Embed security throughout the software and AI development lifecycle.
• Define and maintain secure development standards, guidance, and best practices.
• Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and risk assessments across the software development lifecycle.
• Build and maintain security automation and governance that integrates into development workflows.
• Produce customer-facing security assurance — security questionnaire responses, security whitepapers, and trust collateral — that unblocks enterprise deals.
• Represent product security in customer, cross-functional, and leadership discussions.
• Mentor teams on secure coding, AI risk management, and secure design.
• Promote a security-first culture through advocacy, documentation, and training.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Secure SDLC

Secure architecture

Cloud security

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Encryption basics

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

RBAC / ABAC

Cross-functional advocacy

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Threat modeling tools

Security assessment tools

Job description

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

About the Role

We're looking for a Senior Product Security Engineer to lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable, and trustworthy products across AlphaSense's AI-native platform. You'll work closely with architects, engineering, and product teams to embed security by design throughout the software development lifecycle.

This role sits at the intersection of AI/ML security, secure architecture, threat modeling, and customer-facing assurance — defining the standards, automation, and frameworks that enable secure, intelligent products at scale.

What You’ll Do:

AI Security & Enablement (30%)

• Architect and enforce security controls for AI/ML systems — model training, data pipelines, inference environments, and agentic workflows.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific attack vectors: prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, model theft.
• Implement model provenance, integrity, and auditability controls for responsible, secure AI operations.
• Align AI security with governance and compliance teams against frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.

Secure Architecture & Development Lifecycle (30%)

• Embed security throughout the software and AI development lifecycle, partnering with architects, engineering, and product across AlphaSense's application and cloud ecosystems.
• Ensure security, privacy, and compliance by design.
• Define and maintain secure development standards, guidance, and best practices.

Threat Modeling & Security Review (20%)

• Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and risk assessments across the software development lifecycle.
• Build and maintain security automation and governance that integrates into development workflows.

Customer-Facing Security Assurance (10%)

• Produce customer-facing security assurance — security questionnaire responses, security whitepapers, and trust collateral — that unblocks enterprise deals.
• Represent product security in customer, cross-functional, and leadership discussions.

Leadership (10%)

• Mentor teams on secure coding, AI risk management, and secure design.
• Promote a security-first culture through advocacy, documentation, and training.

What We Are Looking For:

• 5–7+ years in product, application, or cloud security engineering.
• Deep understanding of secure SDLC, threat modeling, and secure architecture design.
• Ability to read and review code to inform threat models and design reviews.
• Experience securing AI/ML pipelines, data workflows, and model-serving infrastructure, with working knowledge of AI/LLM security (prompt injection, model integrity, provenance).
• Proven expertise with cloud security concepts and best practices across multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with encryption fundamentals — symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, TLS/mTLS, key management, and secrets handling.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns in modern applications: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, and ABAC.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional security initiatives — partnering with engineering, product, and compliance to embed security into roadmaps, influence architectural decisions, and align stakeholders across boundaries.

Nice to Have

• Container and orchestration security (Kubernetes runtime protection).
• Software supply chain security and artifact integrity verification.
• Experience with bug bounty programs — triaging findings, driving root-cause analysis, and turning results into systemic security improvements.
• Familiarity with compliance and governance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, NIST AI RMF).
• Certifications such as CKS, CISSP, CSSLP, or AI/ML security credentials.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge security challenges in a fast-growing company.
• Opportunity to shape and drive product security strategy.
• Collaborative and security-minded engineering culture.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and career growth opportunities.

For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.

You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

Base Compensation Range

$182,000 - $228,000 USD

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.