Vulnerability Operations & AI Security Principal

Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 197,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a Vulnerability Operations and Response Principal to own strategy and scaling of enterprise vulnerability management across multi-cloud and AI deployments.

You will partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product security to identify, prioritize, and neutralize vulnerabilities at cloud scale, presenting progress to executive leadership. You will drive governance for AI/ML workloads, manage model supply chain risks, and lead incident response efforts, ensuring rapid

Qualifications

• 8+ years of deep technical experience in enterprise vulnerability management, product security, infrastructure security, or security architecture at cloud scale.
• A track record of running vulnerability response across a broad spectrum of stakeholders and keeping momentum even when there is no clear playbook.
• Principal-level expertise in threat-informed vulnerability prioritization frameworks, including CVSS, EPSS, and KEV catalog, and in modern vulnerability management lifecycles across diverse multi-tenant environments.
• A strong understanding of emerging AI and ML architectures and security threat models, including LLM security risks, frontier model-based attacks, supply chain vulnerabilities, and AI pipeline exposures.

Responsibilities

• Own the internal Vulnerability Operations roadmap end to end, driving strategy and execution for traditional infrastructure, container and microservice ecosystems, and secure development.
• Build and enforce specialized security governance and vulnerability assessment frameworks for AI and ML workloads, including model supply chain risks, prompt injection pathways, shadow AI deployments, and data pipeline exposures.
• Support critical vulnerability response operations, including leading high-profile vulnerability incidents and improving processes for your teams and partner teams during those incidents.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, and Architecture leaders across internal groups to build capabilities that minimize exposure to vulnerabilities across the entire vulnerability lifecycle.
• Design techniques for continuous automated scanning, intelligent triage, and ticketing orchestration pipelines that eliminate manual overhead and streamline remediation without creating operational bottlenecks.
• Report systemic posture trends, emerging AI threat vectors, model vulnerability metrics, and cross-group SLA performance directly to executive security leadership and C-level stakeholders.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security architecture

Cloud security

AI/ML security

Threat-informed prioritization

CVSS

EPSS

KEV catalog

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. seeks a Vulnerability Operations and Response Principal to own strategy and scaling of enterprise vulnerability management across multi-cloud and AI deployments.

You will partner with engineering, infrastructure, and product security to identify, prioritize, and neutralize vulnerabilities at cloud scale, presenting progress to executive leadership. You will drive governance for AI/ML workloads, manage model supply chain risks, and lead incident response efforts, ensuring rapid