Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security & Security Assurance
$184,000 - $245,000 per year
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L6
$184,000 - $245,000 per year
Occupations
Information Security EngineersInformation Security AnalystsSecurity Management Specialists- AI Security Lead Serve as the technical authority for security reviews involving: Generative AI applicationsLLM-powered featuresAI agentsAgentic workflowsMCP (Model Context Protocol) integrationsAI skills and marketplacesAI coding assistants
- Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) capabilities
- Define security requirements and guardrails for AI-enabled products and services. Evaluate emerging AI technologies and assess associated security risks.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure AI features are secure by design.
- Threat Modeling & Security Architecture Lead threat modeling efforts for critical product and platform initiatives.
- Establish and scale a threat modeling program across engineering organizations.
- Conduct security architecture reviews for high-risk and strategic initiatives.
- Develop security reference architectures, design patterns, and guidance for engineering teams. Identify systemic security risks and drive long-term remediation strategies.
- Security Assurance Own and evolve Product Security assurance activities including: Security reviewsSecurity assessmentsAI security reviewsSecurity testing strategies
- Security requirements and standards
- Define risk-based approaches for evaluating emerging technologies. Partner with engineering teams to embed security validation throughout the SDLC.Secure Development & Developer Enablement Establish secure development standards for AI-enabled applications.
- Drive adoption of secure coding practices across engineering teams. Develop scalable developer guidance and security enablement programs.
- Evaluate and implement approaches to improve security feedback during development, including AI-assisted security review capabilities.
- Security Automation & Innovation Identify opportunities to automate security reviews and reduce manual effort.
- Partner with security tooling owners to improve developer experience and security coverage.
- Define metrics that measure effectiveness of AI security and security assurance programs.
- Evaluate emerging security technologies relevant to AI and modern software development.
- Cross-Functional Influence Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data Science, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Operations teams. Influence technical direction through expertise and relationship-building.
- Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers in threat modeling, architecture reviews, and AI security.
- 12+ years of experience in Product Security, Application Security, Security Architecture, or Security Engineering.
- Proven experience operating at Staff or Senior Staff level within a technology organization.
- Demonstrated expertise in: Threat Modeling
- Security Architecture Reviews
- Application Security
- Cloud Security
- Secure SDLCVulnerability Management
- Secure Design Principles
- Experience securing modern architectures including: APIsMicroservicesKubernetesContainersCloud-native platforms
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards including: OWASPNISTSOC 2ISO 27001PCI DSSDemonstrated ability to influence engineering organizations and drive security outcomes without direct authority.
- Experience securing: Generative AI applicationsLLM-based productsAI agentsAgentic workflowsMCP integrations
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
- Familiarity with AI security concepts including: Prompt Injection
- Indirect Prompt Injection
- Tool AbuseAgent Authorization
- Data Leakage
- Model AbuseAI Threat Modeling
- Experience developing security guidance for AI-enabled software development.
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent.
Level
LeadL6
Salary
$184,000 - $245,000 per year
Location
McLean, VA
Occupation
Information Security Engineers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
Posted
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