13 days 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 collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineering teams to implement fixes before production release.
- Build and maintain security automation, including scanning tools, CI/CD 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 security incident response, triage, root cause analysis, remediation, and documentation for customer-deployed AI systems.
- Create reusable security playbooks, runbooks, modules, templates, and reference configurations for future engagements.
- Travel up to 25% and work directly with customer-facing FDE delivery pods.
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 system 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 or agentic systems.
- Preferred experience with service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services, AWS technologies, and security or compliance standards such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST.
- Preferred knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.
- A US government Top Secret or higher security clearance is preferred.
- Selected candidates must be US citizens.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance and related coverage, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, EAP, mental health support, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
- Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, inclusion programs, and career-development resources.
- The role requires up to 25% travel and is offered across listed US locations.
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.