Staff AI & App Security Engineer

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Bismarck (ND); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is hiring a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure AI-enabled applications and agentic systems. You will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, and guide teams on secure development practices across enterprise AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security in design, development, and operation of AI-driven solutions, while mentoring engineers in secure coding and AI security.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing, building, or securing enterprise-scale applications.
• 5+ years of application security experience, including threat modeling, secure design, code review, and vulnerability management.
• 5+ years of programming in Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, or Go.
• 3+ years of experience developing or securing AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions.
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security standards, best practices, and guardrails for applications and AI.
• Promote secure-by-design principles across development lifecycles.
• Establish secure design patterns for AI agents, prompt management, tool integrations, and memory handling.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and mitigate AI-specific security risks.
• Serve as SME for AI-enabled applications and agentic systems security.
• Review architectures using large language models, retrieval augmented generation, and AI agents.
• Define identity, authorization, data protection, observability, and governance controls for AI environments.
• Collaborate across AI platform, engineering, product, and data teams to ensure secure adoption.
• Perform threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security assessments for AI-enabled systems.
• Collaborate with teams to prioritize and remediate security findings.
• Evaluate emerging AI security tools to improve security posture.
• Influence engineering teams to embed security in development processes and roadmaps.
• Partner with privacy, compliance, legal, and risk teams to align security controls.
• Provide guidance on AI security, threats, and best practices.
• Participate in strategic initiatives for secure AI adoption.
• Support incident response and continuous improvement of security controls.
• Mentor engineers on secure coding, threat modeling, and AI security.
• Contribute to evaluation of AI security research and standards.

Skills

Enterprise-scale applications

Application security

Threat modeling

Python

Java

JavaScript

C#

Go

Public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

CVS Health is hiring a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure AI-enabled applications and agentic systems. You will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, and guide teams on secure development practices across enterprise AI initiatives.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security in design, development, and operation of AI-driven solutions, while mentoring engineers in secure coding and AI security.