Senior AI Security and Governance Engineer
VIAVI Solutions3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve VIAVI’s enterprise AI governance framework aligned with NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and the EU AI Act.
- Establish AI risk tiering, classification, approval, intake, exception, waiver, discovery, and audit processes.
- Lead AI-specific threat modeling and define secure architecture patterns for LLM applications, autonomous agents, and multi-agent workflows.
- Embed secure AI development controls, CI/CD gates, pre-production reviews, and post-deployment monitoring with engineering teams.
- Design runtime protections including prompt injection detection, jailbreak protection, output controls, and abuse detection.
- Define human-on-the-loop checkpoints for high-risk autonomous agent decisions.
- Implement granular access controls, data monitoring, classification, retention, boundary, and exfiltration-prevention controls for AI systems.
- Partner with Engineering, Legal, Privacy, Product, Risk, IT, Procurement, and Compliance teams and report to the CISO.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree is preferred, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 8–12+ years of experience in security architecture, application security, cloud security, or a closely related field.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience securing enterprise AI/ML or LLM-based systems, including prompt injection, AI API data exfiltration, and agentic risk.
- Experience defining and implementing AI governance frameworks involving OWASP Top 10 for LLM, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act, or equivalent.
- Strong experience in threat modeling, secure design review, and risk management for complex distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with DLP, CASB, SWG, or equivalent technologies in AI and SaaS environments.
- Experience designing and enforcing RBAC and ABAC access-control frameworks for AI agents, tools, and data pipelines.
- Ability to read and review Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar code to understand AI workflows, APIs, and failure modes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting and translating AI risk into business language.
Benefits
- VIAVI is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
- The role partners across enterprise functions and reports to the CISO.
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About VIAVI Solutions
VIAVI Solutions (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a public company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona that sells network test, monitoring, and service-assurance equipment and software to telecom operators, enterprises, and network builders. It also produces optical security and thin‑film coatings used for currency anti‑counterfeiting and light management in consumer electronics, automotive, defense, and instrumentation. The company traces its lineage to JDSU, from which it was spun out in 2015.