2 months ago
Boston, MA, USA +5 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$159k - $213k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, architecture assessments, threat modeling, and penetration testing for production AI systems.
- Identify vulnerabilities and work with Forward Deployed Engineering teams to implement fixes before production release.
- Build and maintain security automation, including scanning tools, security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks.
- Implement controls for AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, unsafe outputs, data isolation, model API vulnerabilities, and guardrail weaknesses.
- Support incident response, triage, root cause analysis, and remediation for production AI systems.
- Create reusable security playbooks, runbooks, accelerator modules, templates, and reference configurations.
- Work alongside delivery teams in customer environments and travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- US citizenship is required.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is required.
- At least two years of experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
- At least two years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
- At least two years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
- At least two years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- At least two years of hands-on experience building AI or agentic systems.
- Preferred experience includes service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services, AWS technologies, security and compliance standards, and a top-secret-or-higher US government clearance.
- Preferred knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance and mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Customer-embedded work with up to 25% travel; listed locations include Mountain View, Boston, New York, Dallas, Arlington, and Seattle.
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.