Kyndryl

Principal AI Security Engineer

Kyndryl
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4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $342k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and deploy security controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
  • Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
  • Implement identity, authorization, secrets management, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
  • Conduct AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
  • Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
  • Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
  • Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of experience in security engineering, application security, product security, cloud security, software engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
  • Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security, logging, monitoring, and secure development controls.
  • Experience implementing technical controls for the evolving AI risk landscape.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
  • Ability to conduct threat modeling and convert findings into working engineering solutions.
  • Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Preferred experience developing or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, or machine learning platforms.
  • Preferred experience with AI gateways, model routing, RAG, vector databases, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
  • Preferred experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, or automated control validation.
  • Relevant security, cloud, application security, or AI engineering certifications are preferred.

Benefits

  • Base compensation is listed for a full-time schedule, with location-specific ranges in the United States.
  • Eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program or, where applicable, a sales commission plan.
  • Benefits include medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.
  • Employee learning programs provide access to certifications and training, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Skillsoft.
  • Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
  • Client, customer, or partner locations may require proof of vaccination under their policies, with medical or religious accommodations available.

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About Kyndryl

10,000+ employees

Kyndryl is a public IT services company that designs, runs, and modernizes mission-critical infrastructure for large enterprises and governments. Spun off from IBM in 2021, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on the NYSE (ticker: KD). The company provides managed infrastructure, cloud migration and operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus mainframe, network, security, data, and digital workplace services.

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