Staff AI Security Engineer: Secure AI & Agentic Systems

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows across the enterprise. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security throughout design, development, and operations.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and advance responsible AI security controls with cross-functional

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, or securing enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
• 5+ years of application security experience, including threat modeling, secure design, code review, and vulnerability management.
• 5+ years of programming in one of 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 public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

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.
• Review and provide guidance on architectures utilizing large language models, retrieval augmented generation pipelines, AI agents, and AI-powered workflows.
• Define and recommend identity, authorization, data protection, observability, and governance controls for AI environments.

Skills

Application security

Threat modeling

Secure coding

AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows across the enterprise. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security throughout design, development, and operations.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, perform threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and advance responsible AI security controls with cross-functional