Agent Security Engineer

Belmont Lavan Ltd • Texas City, TX

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About The Position

Belmont Lavan is hiring an Agent Security Engineer to secure autonomous AI agents before and after they reach production. The role focuses on establishing controls for agents that call tools, hold credentials, and act on live systems, including identity, least-privilege access, monitoring, and testing.

The engineer will work between AI engineering and security, designing guardrails, actively attacking and testing systems, and building governance controls that enable the business to deploy agents with confidence.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in security engineering, such as AppSec, cloud security, IAM, or offensive security.
• At least 1 year of experience securing LLM or agent-based systems.
• Hands-on knowledge of LLM attack techniques, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration via tools, and RAG poisoning.
• Experience designing identity and access controls, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, token exchange, workload identity, and secrets management.
• Working knowledge of agent frameworks and protocols such as LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, or Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Strong Python coding skills and proficiency in at least one of Go, TypeScript, or Rust.
• Cloud security experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP, including logging, detection, and policy-as-code such as OPA or Cedar.
• Ability to explain AI risk clearly to engineers, risk teams, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Design guardrails for autonomous AI agents.
• Attack and test AI agent systems before and after production deployment.
• Build governance controls to support confident business deployment of agents.
• Establish controls for agent identity, least-privilege access, monitoring, and testing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed