Senior Security Engineer - Forward-Deployed AI

Amazon Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC's AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team seeks a Senior Security Engineer to embed with FDE delivery teams and own production AI security. You will conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and build automation to secure AI/ML pipelines with a production mindset and customer presence.

This role requires US citizenship and involves travel up to 25%. You will integrate security into CI/CD workflows, implement AI-specific controls, and develop reusable security patterns for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing experience
• 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go
• Experience with threat modeling and penetration testing, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities

Responsibilities

• Conduct security design reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments for production AI systems.
• Embed with FDE delivery teams in customer environments; assess infrastructure security posture, identify gaps, implement controls while maintaining delivery velocity
• Build security automation and tooling: scanning, testing, monitoring capabilities purpose-built for forward-deployed AI systems; create reusable security accelerators
• Implement controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection, guardrail bypass, model endpoint hardening, training data protection, output filtering, data isolation
• Integrate security into FDE engineering workflows: CI/CD security gates, secrets management, dependency scanning, container security
• Triage and respond to security incidents in production AI systems; build monitoring and alerting for AI-specific security signals
• Document solutions as reusable patterns, playbooks, and architectural guidance
• Requires up to 25% travel

Skills

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Automation tooling

Programming languages: Scala/Java/Py/"

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD security gates

Dependency scanning

Container security

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC's AWS Forward Deployed Engineering team seeks a Senior Security Engineer to embed with FDE delivery teams and own production AI security. You will conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and build automation to secure AI/ML pipelines with a production mindset and customer presence.

This role requires US citizenship and involves travel up to 25%. You will integrate security into CI/CD workflows, implement AI-specific controls, and develop reusable security patterns for