Senior Staff AI Security Engineer - Product Security Lead

BAM Ventures; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security to lead security engineering across AI‑assisted development and AI‑enabled products. You will partner with architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to translate AI security requirements into scalable controls and testing, and mentor engineers to reduce risk.

You will drive security reviews of AI models and systems, design runtime monitoring and incident response for AI workloads, and shape the program

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant security engineering experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Experience with AI security preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex AI security initiatives across product and platform teams.
• Design and implement AI security controls and risk-based enforcement.
• Mentor engineers and translate security requirements into scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce vulnerabilities.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

Programming languages

Cloud platforms

Security tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

PayPal in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security to lead security engineering across AI‑assisted development and AI‑enabled products. You will partner with architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to translate AI security requirements into scalable controls and testing, and mentor engineers to reduce risk.

You will drive security reviews of AI models and systems, design runtime monitoring and incident response for AI workloads, and shape the program