1 day ago
Dallas, TX, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$159k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems.
- Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications and coordinate vulnerability remediation.
- Build security automation including scanning tools, security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks.
- Implement controls for prompt injection, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration.
- Support incident response, triage, root cause analysis, and remediation for production AI systems.
- Document findings and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks.
- Contribute reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations to the FDE security accelerator library.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- At least 2 years of combined experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
- At least 2 years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- At least 2 years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience building AI/agentic systems.
- Preferred experience includes service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services, AWS technologies, and security or compliance standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST.
- Preferred qualifications include a US government Top Secret or higher security clearance and knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go.
- The selected candidate must be a US Citizen.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, and flexible spending benefits.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Up to 25% travel is required.
- The position is based in Dallas, Texas.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.