Staff AI Security Engineer: Secure AI Apps & Agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operation of both traditional and AI-driven solutions.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure practices, and support responsible AI security

Qualifications

• 7+ years 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 experience in one or more languages such as 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 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.
• Collaborate with AI platform, engineering, product, and data teams to ensure secure and responsible AI adoption.
• Perform threat modeling, architecture reviews, and security assessments for applications and AI-enabled systems.
• Conduct security analysis of AI workflows, model integrations, agent interactions, and data flows.
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate security findings.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure design

Code review

Vulnerability management

AI security

Public cloud platforms

Secure SDLC

Security leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operation of both traditional and AI-driven solutions.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure practices, and support responsible AI security