Secure AI Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton11 hours ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Advise clients on the secure design, deployment, governance, and risk management of AI systems and generative AI applications.
- Conduct AI red-team assessments of LLMs, RAG systems, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows.
- Identify and demonstrate AI-specific attack vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, indirect prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and model extraction.
- Develop recommendations, technical mitigations, security controls, and evaluation methods to improve AI system security and resilience.
- Build, test, and evaluate agentic AI systems using modern orchestration frameworks.
- Design security testing methodologies, automation, and tooling for AI applications across the development lifecycle.
- Adapt and extend open-source AI frameworks, security tools, and evaluation platforms for client-specific requirements.
- Stay current with emerging AI threats, vulnerabilities, research, and industry best practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, or evaluating AI/ML systems.
- At least 3 years of experience developing applications using LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
- Experience with AI system red teaming, adversarial AI, or AI governance.
- Knowledge of AI security principles, secure AI development practices, AI attack techniques, and AI risk management.
- Bachelor's degree, preferably in computer science, cybersecurity, or engineering.
- Preferred experience with Microsoft's PyRIT, Garak, Inspect AI, OWASP GenAI tools, or similar AI red-teaming platforms.
- Preferred experience with security assessments, penetration testing, offensive security, agent orchestration frameworks, RAG security controls, vector databases, AI gateways, and model-serving infrastructure.
- Preferred experience with containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and open-source projects.
- Preferred knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, MITRE ATLAS, adversarial machine learning, and emerging AI security standards.
- Preferred CISSP, OSCP, Security+, GIAC, or cloud security certification.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with expected work at a Booz Allen or customer facility according to leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards program and access to Booz Allen employee benefits for eligible employees working at least 20 hours per week.
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About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).