Enterprise AI Security Engineer
Eli Lilly and Company1 day ago
Indianapolis, IN, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$66k - $158k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement, tune, operate, and test enterprise AI guardrails and policy content across assistants, coding agents, and internally built agents.
- Assess AI applications, agents, integrations, MCP servers, tool connectors, and third-party AI products for access, capabilities, and security risks.
- Build telemetry pipelines, analytics, dashboards, detections, and alerts for AI usage, agent activity, data exfiltration, anomalous behavior, and unsafe tool use.
- Integrate AI security tooling with cloud, endpoint, identity, data protection, ticketing, SIEM, and SOAR platforms.
- Automate deployment, testing, rollback, and version-controlled management of guardrail services and detection content.
- Support security operations and insider-threat investigations, track remediation, measure control effectiveness, and document findings.
- Collaborate with AI application teams and security, privacy, and platform engineering peers on standards, threat models, and reusable security patterns.
- At the Principal Engineer level, lead small workstreams, mentor less experienced engineers, and represent the team in cross-functional sessions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or an IT-related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or security operations.
- Authorization to work full-time in the United States without employer support or sponsorship for work authorization or visas.
- Preferred proficiency in Python, Bash or PowerShell, REST APIs, JSON, and SQL.
- Preferred experience with AWS or Azure and security domains including identity and access management, application security, data protection, and security monitoring.
- Preferred hands-on familiarity with LLM applications, coding assistants, agents, prompt injection, data leakage, and excessive permissions.
- Preferred experience with detection engineering, DLP, rule tuning, SIEM, EDR, proxy or gateway platforms, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, MCP, AI evaluation, or red-team tooling.
- Preferred familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, GitHub Actions, Athena, and dashboard development.
- Relevant certifications such as Security+, AWS or Azure security, or GIAC, or participation in CTF or AI red-team exercises are preferred.
- Ability to analyze data, write clear findings, communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and work with change control and audit requirements.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for a company bonus based partly on company and individual performance.
- Benefits may include a 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, employee assistance, fitness, and employee club benefits.
- The role is based in a regulated environment with change-control and audit requirements; the posting does not specify a remote or hybrid work arrangement.
About Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and biologics for patients, sold through healthcare providers, pharmacies, and payers. Core therapeutic areas include diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and obesity. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Indianapolis, it is a public company (NYSE: LLY) with global operations and is building a new advanced manufacturing site for gene therapy and other modalities in Lebanon, Indiana.