Citi

Forward Deployed AI Engineer for Cyber Security

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2 days ago
Budapest, HungaryStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, deploy, and scale LLM-powered security systems, RAG pipelines, tool-augmented agents, and autonomous workflows.
  • Work directly with cybersecurity practitioners to understand operational bottlenecks and deliver working AI software solutions.
  • Integrate agents with enterprise APIs, security scanners, SIEM/SOAR platforms, code repositories, and containerized infrastructure.
  • Create evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, latency, faithfulness, hallucination, reliability, and tool-call precision, and implement AI guardrails.
  • Write production-ready Python, package applications as containerized microservices, and deploy them through automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Apply secure coding and AI safety practices addressing prompt injection, model abuse, data leakage, insecure tool execution, and other attack vectors.
  • Standardize reusable AI components, evaluation patterns, and integration libraries across the CISO engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems using prompt engineering, RAG architectures, structured outputs, and tool or function calling.
  • Foundational cybersecurity knowledge in Application Security or Security Operations for AVP-level placement.
  • Advanced experience architecting, building, and evaluating production tool-using agentic systems for VP-level placement.
  • Strong technical depth in one cybersecurity domain, such as Offensive/AppSec or Detection/SOC, and working fluency in the other for VP-level placement.
  • AVP placement generally requires 4–7+ years of software engineering experience and VP placement generally requires 8–10+ years.
  • Strong Python proficiency and experience shipping or owning production services, pipelines, APIs, microservices, containerized applications, and CI/CD systems.
  • Preferred experience with AppSec or SIEM tooling such as Semgrep, CodeQL, Snyk, Burp Suite, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, or Google Chronicle.
  • Preferred knowledge of detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK, AI attack surfaces, fine-tuning or adaptation, and SOAR automation workflows.
  • Preferred security certifications include OSCP, GWAPT, GPEN, or GCIH.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with up to two days working from home per week.
  • Cafeteria program, home office allowance, private medical care, onsite medical rooms, pension contribution, group life insurance, and employee assistance program.
  • Paid parental leave, including maternity and paternity leave.
  • Access to learning and development programs, online course libraries, Udemy, Degreed, and other upskilling platforms.
  • Flexible work arrangements, career progression opportunities, and employee networking communities.
  • Full-time employment in Citi Hungary with a business-casual workplace.

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About Citi

10,000+ employees

Citi is a public financial-services company offering consumer and institutional banking, credit cards, wealth management, treasury and trade solutions, and capital-markets services. It serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, and governments in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions, earning interest and fee income from lending, payments, trading, and advisory. Founded in 1812 and headquartered in New York, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker C.

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