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Responsibilities
- Drive Ripple’s AI Security technical strategy and roadmap across AI systems, agentic workflows, and the AI development lifecycle.
- Design and implement security controls for LLM-integrated and agentic systems, including sandboxing, identity and permission scoping, runtime monitoring, and containment.
- Own security guardrails, provenance standards, dual-review requirements, and audit trail controls for AI-assisted development.
- Lead security reviews and risk assessments for LLM APIs, SaaS copilots, AI code editors, agentic workflows, third-party MCP servers, and vendor-embedded AI.
- Build and scale shadow AI detection, support enforcement of the AI acceptable use policy, and maintain an auditable perimeter for AI workflows.
- Advise Ripple on agentic AI threats including MCP server security, tool poisoning, prompt injection, and excessive agency.
- Contribute to industry frameworks, regulatory engagement, and published research on responsible AI security.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Security Engineering experience with depth in at least two areas such as Product Security, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.
- Meaningful hands-on experience with AI or ML security and a strong understanding of LLM and agentic AI threats.
- Experience securing agentic AI systems through sandboxing, permission scoping, human-in-the-loop design, or runtime monitoring.
- Fluency in cloud security on AWS, GCP, or Azure; CI/CD pipeline security; container and Kubernetes security; IAM; and API security.
- Experience with threat modeling approaches such as STRIDE, MITRE ATLAS, or OWASP LLM Top 10.
- Strong cross-functional influence and ability to establish structure for ambiguous problems spanning Engineering, Product, and Security.
- Experience in FinTech, crypto, or regulated environments and familiarity with NYDFS, MAS, DORA, or SOC 2 is preferred.
- A builder’s mentality and comfort developing security practices in an emerging area are preferred.
Benefits
- Professional development budget and opportunities to work with experienced industry leaders in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Flexible in-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees attend in person.
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
- Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
- R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
- Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
- Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, premium snacks and beverages, and company events.
- Benefits listed are for full-time employees.
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About Ripple
Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.