Principal Engineer – AI Security Developer
StoneX Group Inc.2 years ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and own the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for AI-powered security capabilities.
- Design and govern the reference architecture for LLM services, orchestration, agent frameworks, RAG platforms, evaluation infrastructure, data access, and security integrations.
- Architect and build shared platform capabilities such as secure LLM services, agent runtimes, tool and connector frameworks, retrieval services, prompt and model management, and observability.
- Personally design, build, and prototype complex production components across the full stack.
- Evaluate models, frameworks, vendors, and open-source technologies based on security, performance, cost, maintainability, and strategic value.
- Establish secure integration patterns with source-code repositories, threat models, cloud platforms, SIEM, SOAR, IAM, CMDB, and vulnerability management systems.
- Set expectations for reliability, scalability, latency, monitoring, operational readiness, and cost management for production AI workloads.
- Define protections against prompt injection, data leakage, model and supply-chain risk, agent tool misuse, and adversarial manipulation.
- Establish benchmark datasets, automated evaluation pipelines, red teaming, regression testing, and measures of accuracy, hallucination, reliability, and analyst trust.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, Data Governance, and Architecture on responsible AI, privacy, regulatory, model risk, and data residency requirements.
- Set AI engineering standards for architecture, code quality, design review, testing, documentation, and production readiness.
- Influence technical direction across teams, mentor senior and staff engineers, advise executive stakeholders, and represent StoneX in industry forums.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- 5+ years focused on AI/ML, security engineering, or both.
- Experience operating as a Principal, Staff, or equivalent senior technical leader with architecture and technical-direction responsibility across multiple teams or an organization.
- Experience architecting, deploying, and operating GenAI applications, RAG solutions, or AI agents in production at scale, including evaluation, monitoring, and cost management.
- Deep expertise in large language models, prompt and context engineering, embeddings, vector databases, agent frameworks, tool orchestration, and model evaluation.
- Expert Python proficiency and strong experience with at least one additional production language such as TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or C#.
- Full-stack technical credibility across back-end services and APIs, front-end interfaces, integrations, and data pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Azure workload scaling, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and workflows including SIEM, SOAR, vulnerability management, IAM, cloud security, and application security.
- Working knowledge of AI-specific security risks and frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATT&CK, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
- Ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and executives and drive change across organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- Preferred qualifications include financial services or regulated-industry experience, model risk management, responsible AI, AI governance, industry contributions, and a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- The role requires working from the office four days per week.
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About StoneX Group Inc.
StoneX Group Inc. is a public financial services firm that connects institutional, commercial, and retail clients to global markets through brokerage, execution, clearing, risk management, and cross-border payments. It offers trading and hedging across commodities, equities, fixed income, futures/options, and FX, and operates retail platforms via GAIN Capital’s FOREX.com and City Index (acquired 2020). Founded in 1924 and headquartered in New York, it lists on Nasdaq under SNEX.