AI Security Engineer
Micron Technology1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Build and harden security tools protecting AI agents, model-backed services, integrations, and supporting infrastructure.
- Operate and mature AI guardrails, prompt-injection defenses, and data-loss prevention controls.
- Design detections for agentic threats including tool abuse, credential misuse, data exfiltration, and memory or context manipulation.
- Develop automated response and containment tools with tiered authority for reversible and irreversible actions.
- Enable rapid revocation of compromised agent access and credentials and restore systems to a known-good state.
- Create reusable architectures, reference designs, and frameworks for securing agentic systems.
- Partner with detection and response, threat intelligence, platform engineering, and AI enablement teams as a technical authority.
- Evaluate emerging AI security tools, techniques, and research and bring effective solutions into production.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in security engineering, detection and response, or related fields.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Strong software engineering expertise in Python, APIs, data pipelines, and security platforms.
- Hands-on experience securing AI and enterprise environments, including AI agents, LLM applications, tool/function calling, retrieval and memory, orchestration frameworks, and Model Context Protocol integrations.
- Experience implementing AI guardrails, DLP, identity and access management, and application or endpoint protection.
- Knowledge of detection and response engineering, automation, telemetry analysis, blast-radius assessment, containment, credential and secrets management, network and endpoint security, and incident response.
- Ability to drive complex initiatives from concept to production with minimal direction.
- Preferred: expertise in AI and agentic system security, adversarial ML, AI red teaming, production-grade security controls, and guardrails.
- Preferred: knowledge of MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Guidance, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
- Preferred: enterprise-scale cloud and on-premises security experience, community contributions, research, thought leadership, and relevant security or cloud certifications.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Income protection benefits for illness or injury.
- Paid family leave.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
About Micron Technology
Micron Technology designs and manufactures memory and storage semiconductors—DRAM, NAND, NOR and SSDs—sold to device makers, cloud providers, and embedded/automotive markets. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho, it operates globally and sells under the Micron and Crucial brands as a public company (NASDAQ: MU). Its products support data center, AI, mobile, and PC systems, including high-bandwidth and multichip packages for performance- and space-constrained applications.