AI Application Security Engineer
Charles Schwab3 days ago
Base Salary
$130k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design scalable security standards, architectures, testing capabilities, monitoring solutions, and guardrails for AI-enabled applications, models, APIs, and software supply chains.
- Assess emerging threats and complex risks across application, API, authentication, authorization, software supply chain, and AI security domains.
- Build and maintain internal AI security libraries for prompt-input validation, output protection, redaction, PII safeguards, and automated testing.
- Integrate security capabilities into developer workflows, common frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with development, architecture, platform engineering, and security teams to enable vulnerability remediation and secure AI delivery at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in application security, security engineering, software engineering, or a related cybersecurity discipline.
- Experience implementing and governing secure software development lifecycle practices.
- Experience with application security, API security, authentication and authorization, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and software supply chain security.
- Experience with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and modern application architecture.
- Proficiency in Python, Java, C#, Go, JavaScript, or another programming language.
- Exposure to AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or Google Cloud Vertex AI.
- Familiarity with GitHub and CI/CD tools, plus working knowledge of HTTP protocols, HTTP proxies, and core networking concepts.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: experience securing generative AI, large language models, agentic AI platforms, or machine learning systems; experience developing agents or AI harnesses; and knowledge of AI threats and relevant security frameworks.
- Preferred: experience with security testing, observability, and production monitoring, along with strong risk evaluation, communication, collaboration, and scalable security solution development skills.
- Preferred: CISSP, CSSLP, cloud security, AI security, or another relevant industry certification.
Benefits
- The role is fully on-site in the specified location.
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
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About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.