Staff AI Security Engineer

2 months ago

Chicago, IL, USA +4 moreStaff+

H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $248k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and deploy enterprise AI guardrails, gateways, and controls for agentic workflows.
Establish security architectures for local and hosted agents to mitigate tool-calling, prompt injection, goal misalignment, and data exfiltration risks.
Develop secure design patterns, standards, and developer tools for building and deploying AI features.
Lead threat modeling and security reviews for agentic AI systems, enterprise deployments, and agent ecosystems.
Build systems to discover, inventory, and assess AI usage and data flows across the enterprise.
Design and operate internal AI security platforms and integrated AI capabilities that automate security operations.
Drive technical alignment across product, security, and infrastructure teams and mentor engineers and security practitioners.

8+ years of experience in security engineering or backend software development.
Strong coding proficiency in Python or Go and hands-on cloud experience.
Deep knowledge of AI security threats, including prompt injection and excessive agency, as well as OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF.
Experience securing or auditing agentic frameworks such as LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, or custom tool-calling agents in sandboxed environments.
Ability to design scalable cloud infrastructure, API gateways, proxy architectures, and access controls for enterprise systems.
Track record of building developer-first security tools and platform controls.
Experience driving technical strategy, influencing engineering leaders, and mentoring engineers.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or equivalent practical experience.

5,001-10,000 employees

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