AI Security Engineer

Job#: 3039480

Job Description:
AI Security Engineer

Work Type: 12-month contract to start

Location: Houston, Texas

Schedule: Hybrid

Openings: 2 - mid and senior level

Role Overview

We are seeking AI Security Engineers at both the Senior and Mid-Level to design, consult on, and actively build a secure AI security harness. Senior-level candidates will operate at a strategic level, advising on architecture and leading design. Mid-level candidates will focus on hands-on implementation. This role requires translating security concepts into real-world solutions by building guardrails and embedding security directly into AI applications and pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with security, data science, and engineering teams to define AI security architecture and best practices.
• Advise on secure design for AI/ML and LLM-based applications and establish frameworks for responsible AI usage, model governance, and data protection.
• Design and implement security controls for AI/ML systems, including safeguards against prompt injection, adversarial inputs, and data leakage.
• Develop and implement LLM guardrails and monitoring mechanisms for AI misuse or anomalies.
• Integrate AI security controls into data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security into production AI systems and build secure APIs and access control mechanisms.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• Proven ability to build and implement solutions in AI/ML or LLM-based systems and backend services.
• Strong programming skills in Python with experience in ML/AI frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or LangChain.
• Practical experience mitigating prompt injection, model tampering, and data exfiltration risks.
• Experience implementing LLM guardrails and secure model interaction patterns.
• Experience building or securing data pipelines, backend systems, API integrations, and microservices architectures.
• Strong understanding of API security, authentication, and identity and access control models (RBAC, IAM).
• Experience in cloud environments, preferably Azure, with familiarity in CI/CD pipelines and secure deployment practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing AI governance frameworks.
• A background that spans both cybersecurity and data engineering.
• Experience with model monitoring or observability tooling.
• Familiarity with Responsible AI or policy frameworks.
• Exposure to enterprise-scale AI adoption programs.

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