Company Overview:
Req ID: 386104
NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.
We are currently seeking a Guardrails Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US).
Job Description:
Guardrails Engineer will build and automate guardrail testing, adversarial testing, policy validation, security checks, and evidence generation for AI agents and LLM-powered solutions. This role is responsible for helping ensure safe, compliant, and controlled deployment of Agentic AI use cases.
Key Responsibilities
Develop automated guardrail testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications, agents, tools, and workflows.
Perform adversarial testing, prompt injection testing, jailbreak testing, red-team-style testing, and policy control validation.
Validate content safety, data protection, security, responsible AI, and model risk controls.
Build repeatable evidence packages to support approval gates and governance reviews.
Collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements.
Integrate guardrail tests into platform lifecycle, CI/CD, release readiness, and production enablement processes.
Document findings, control gaps, remediation recommendations, and readiness evidence.
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of engineering, security testing, QA automation, risk technology, AI safety, or platform testing experience.
5+ years of strong hands-on Python and test automation experience.
5+ years of Understanding of LLM risks, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, content safety, data leakage, and Responsible AI controls.
5+ years of Experience creating test harnesses, validation processes, and repeatable evidence artifacts.
Ability to work with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and product stakeholders.
Required Skills / Knowledge
Python, adversarial testing, red-team testing, prompt security, responsible AI, guardrails, security testing, test harnesses, and evidence automation.
Understanding of AI governance, model risk, content policy controls, approval gates, and regulated delivery.
Ability to automate repeatable quality and safety checks for enterprise AI solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with GenAI security, AI red teaming, model risk controls, or regulated AI delivery.
Experience with CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and enterprise security frameworks.
Banking or financial services experience.
Expected Outcomes
Automated guardrail and adversarial testing framework.
Repeatable governance evidence for AI approval gates.
Improved safety, control validation, and release confidence for agents.
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NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is [ 75 - 80 W2 hourly range]. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate''s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position is eligible for company benefits including participation in medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits
About NTT DATA:
NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of business and technology services. We serve 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and are committed to helping clients innovate, optimize and transform for long term success. As a Global Top Employer, we have diverse experts in more than 50 countries and a robust partner ecosystem of established and start-up companies. Our services include business and technology consulting, data and artificial intelligence, industry solutions, as well as the development, implementation and management of applications, infrastructure and connectivity. We are one of the leading providers of digital and AI infrastructure in the world. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion each year in R&D to help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. Visit us at us.nttdata.com
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- Dice Id: CUEDATA
- Position Id: 26-01833
- Posted 1 day ago