Applied AI Security Engineer

ATS Client; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

ATS Client in Cape Town is building an AI security platform that safeguards data interactions between AI agents and databases. The role focuses on practical AI security in a hands-on, fast-paced setting, requiring ownership and pragmatic problem-solving.

You will help harden the platform and drive secure production deployment with the founder during a critical growth phase. The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of AI security experience, strong threat detection, and experience with LLM security

Qualifications

• Ideally 3+ years of practical AI security experience.
• Threat and anomaly detection.
• LLM security and prompt-injection mitigation.
• Applied machine learning in production environments, security analytics and detection.
• Engineering and security monitoring.
• Ability to assess risk where AI agents interact with systems, data and databases.
• Practical mindset to turn AI security concepts into production-ready controls.

Skills

AI security experience

Threat detection

LLM security

Production ML

Security analytics

Security monitoring

Risk assessment

Job description

ATS Client in Cape Town is building an AI security platform that safeguards data interactions between AI agents and databases. The role focuses on practical AI security in a hands-on, fast-paced setting, requiring ownership and pragmatic problem-solving.

You will help harden the platform and drive secure production deployment with the founder during a critical growth phase. The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of AI security experience, strong threat detection, and experience with LLM security