Vanguard

Application Security, Specialist

Vanguard
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2 days ago
Dallas, TX, USA or Fort Worth, TX, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of application and product security capabilities across multiple systems, applications, and product families.
  • Serve as a technical authority influencing secure architecture and design decisions and aligning solutions with enterprise security standards and industry practices.
  • Lead complex application security assessments, threat modeling, advanced code reviews, risk prioritization, and remediation strategies.
  • Integrate security features, patches, platform enhancements, AI guardrails, and gateway security controls into existing products and applications.
  • Design and implement AI runtime security controls for generative AI applications, LLMs, copilots, RAG solutions, and agentic AI systems.
  • Detect and prevent prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, insecure model responses, malicious AI activity, and excessive agent access.
  • Enforce inference hooks through Zscaler or Alice inline with AI gateways such as Kong and LiteLLM.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to application security and engineering peers and partner with product, engineering, AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and architecture stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Minimum of five years of related work experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Graduate degree preferred.
  • Experience with application security, secure architecture, threat modeling, advanced code review, risk-based remediation, and security controls across product lifecycles.
  • Experience securing AI gateways, APIs, generative AI applications, LLMs, copilots, RAG solutions, and agentic AI systems.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model designed to support flexibility, in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
  • Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

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About Vanguard

10,000+ employees

Vanguard is an investment management company offering low-cost index and active mutual funds, ETFs, brokerage, retirement plans, and financial advice for individual, institutional, and advisor clients. Founded in 1975 by John C. Bogle and headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, it operates a client-owned structure in which its funds own the firm. Its business model centers on asset-based management and advisory fees.

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