Staff AI Security Engineer: Secure AI & Agentic Systems

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

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

As a senior contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and promote responsible AI security controls, governance, and

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain AI security standards, guardrails, and secure-by-design principles across development lifecycles.
• Establish secure design patterns for AI agents, prompt management, tool integrations, memory handling, and autonomous workflows.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific security risks such as prompt injection and data leakage.
• Review architectures utilizing LLMs, 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, engineering, product, and data teams to ensure secure AI adoption.
• Perform threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security assessments for AI-enabled systems.
• Prioritize and remediate security findings with engineering teams.
• Evaluate emerging AI security tools and technologies to improve posture.
• Influence engineering to embed security controls into development processes and roadmaps.
• Partner with privacy, compliance, legal, and risk teams to align security controls with requirements.
• Provide guidance on AI security considerations, emerging threats, and industry best practices.
• Mentor security engineers on secure coding, threat modeling, and AI security practices.
• Contribute to AI security research, open-source projects, or industry standards.

Skills

Application security design

Threat modeling

Secure design patterns

Programming (Python/Java/JS/C#/Go)

Cloud platforms (AWS/AZURE/GCP)

AI security

Security assessments

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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

As a senior contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and promote responsible AI security controls, governance, and