Staff AI Security Engineer for Applications & Agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision

Paid time off

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer focusing on AI and agentic systems to secure next-generation AI-enabled applications and model integrations. You will collaborate with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security throughout design, development, and operation.

As a senior contributor, you will define secure patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure practices, and support responsible AI security controls across the enterprise.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain application and AI security standards, best practices, and guardrails.
• Promote secure-by-design principles across application and AI development lifecycles.
• Establish secure design patterns for AI agents, prompt management, tool integrations, memory handling, and autonomous workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and mitigate AI-specific security risks such as prompt injection, model abuse, data leakage, and unauthorized agent actions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert supporting the security of AI-enabled applications and agentic systems.
• Review architectures utilizing large language models, retrieval augmented generation, AI agents, and AI-powered workflows.
• Define identity, authorization, data protection, observability, and governance controls for AI environments.
• Collaborate with AI platform and product teams to ensure secure and responsible AI adoption.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure design

Code review

Vulnerability management

Programming languages (Python, Java,?)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer focusing on AI and agentic systems to secure next-generation AI-enabled applications and model integrations. You will collaborate with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security throughout design, development, and operation.

As a senior contributor, you will define secure patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure practices, and support responsible AI security controls across the enterprise.