Secure AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton1 day ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design secure AI architectures and advise clients on the secure deployment and governance of AI systems and generative AI applications.
- Conduct AI red team assessments of LLMs, RAG systems, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows.
- Identify and demonstrate AI-specific attack vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, model inversion, and extraction.
- Develop technical recommendations and mitigations to improve AI system security, resilience, and trustworthiness.
- Build, test, and evaluate agentic AI systems using modern orchestration frameworks.
- Create security testing methodologies, automation, and tooling for AI applications throughout the development lifecycle.
- Adapt and extend open-source AI frameworks, security tools, and evaluation platforms for client-specific requirements.
- Monitor emerging AI threats, vulnerabilities, research, and industry best practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, or evaluating AI/ML systems.
- At least 3 years of experience developing applications using LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
- Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial AI, or AI governance.
- Knowledge of AI security principles, secure AI development practices, AI attack techniques, and AI risk management.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, cybersecurity, or engineering.
- Preferred experience with AI red teaming frameworks such as PyRIT, Garak, Inspect AI, or OWASP GenAI tools.
- Preferred experience with security assessments, penetration testing, offensive security, agent orchestration frameworks, open-source projects, containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Preferred knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, MITRE ATLAS, adversarial machine learning, and emerging AI security standards.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, OSCP, Security+, GIAC, or cloud security certifications are preferred.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for the applicable benefits programs.
- Virtual employees may occasionally be required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility, and hybrid or onsite work follows leadership and role requirements.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).