AI Security Engineer
Truist Financial Corporation1 day ago
Charlotte, NC, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Implement and maintain security controls for AI-enabled applications, agentic workflows, intelligent automation solutions, and AI platforms.
- Support secure integration of AI services, APIs, orchestration frameworks, and external tool connections.
- Configure and validate identity, access, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and deployment safeguards.
- Participate in security architecture reviews, threat modeling, AI security assessments, adversarial testing, misuse-case analysis, vulnerability assessments, and deployment readiness reviews.
- Document security findings, recommendations, remediation activities, and validation results.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and detection capabilities for AI-enabled applications and workflows.
- Assist cybersecurity operations teams with investigation and remediation of AI-related security events.
- Partner with software engineering, platform, product, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to implement security requirements and remediate findings.
- Contribute to AI security standards, documentation, implementation guides, runbooks, operational procedures, and automation efforts.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
- Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
- Experience with software development lifecycle security practices and complex information security technologies.
- Advanced knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
- Understanding of AI and LLM security risks including prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure, tool-use risks, model misuse, and output handling.
- Knowledge of cloud-native security, access control, identity management, secrets handling, secure integration design, monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
- Familiarity with no-code, low-code, and pro-code development environments and AI-enabled applications or intelligent agents.
- Preferred experience includes cybersecurity, application security, cloud security, software engineering, DevSecOps, enterprise applications, APIs, cloud-native solutions, distributed systems, vulnerability management, and security reviews.
- Preferred experience includes Microsoft Azure security services, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, AWS cloud services, Amazon Bedrock, RAG, vector databases, agent orchestration frameworks, and AI workflow platforms.
- Preferred certifications include Security+, Azure Security Engineer Associate, AWS Security Specialty, CISSP Associate, GIAC certifications, or similar credentials.
Benefits
- Eligible regular employees working 20 or more hours per week may receive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan.
- Employees receive at least 10 days of vacation in their first year, 10 sick days, and paid holidays, prorated where applicable.
- Depending on position and division, the role may be eligible for a defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or deferred compensation plan.
- The position is regular rather than temporary, is based on first shift in the United States, and requires English fluency.
About Truist Financial Corporation
Truist Financial Corporation provides consumer, small‑business, and commercial banking, plus capital markets, payments, mortgage, and wealth management services across the U.S. It earns interest and fee income from deposits, lending, investment banking, and advisory services delivered through Truist Bank and affiliates. The company was formed in 2019 by the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina; it is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: TFC).