Lead AI Security Engineer

The Capital Group Companies Inc • Irvine, CA

42d • $142,394 - $293,781

About The Position

As a Lead AI Security Engineer, you will be responsible for securing Capital Group's enterprise AI Platforms. You will help enable Capital Group's AI strategy by building and/or procuring solutions to protect a diverse set of enterprise AI platforms being built and deployed at Capital Group. You'll collaborate with platform engineering, security engineering, and risk teams to ensure their solutions support scalable, secure adoption of AI. Additionally, you'll be expected to provide mentoring, advising diverse teams across the organization, and promoting AI Security principles across Capital Group. AI Security Procurement Managements: You will procure and/or build technical solutions to reduce the risk of misconfiguration, exploitation, and other security issues for multiple enterprise AI platforms. Embedding Security in the AI Platform Ecosystem: Working closely with platform teams to integrate security into every component of the AI Platform. Implementing Security Controls & "Guardrails" for GenAI: Designing, deploying, and operating technical controls to prevent misuse of AI systems. Guardrails design includes content filtering systems, usage policies, and safety checks that mitigate issues like prompt injection attacks, unauthorized data extraction, model bias or hallucinations, and other misuse of generative AI platforms. AI Runtime Security: Engineer continually tests and updates to the guardrails, replacing weaker controls with more robust solutions as threats evolve. AI Governance: You will work cross functionally with architecture and platform teams to monitor alignment of solutions to AI Governance processes Contribute to Standards and Policies: You will provide thought leadership for Information Security policies and standards for AI in collaboration with technology risk AI/Agent SME: You will provide AI/Agent subject matter expertise for AI Incidents and Security Reviews, and help develop incident response playbooks for AI-related security incidents

Requirements

• You have 8+ years of experience in information security, application security, platform security, or penetration testing, DevSecOps, network security and other security disciplines.
• You have experience securing AI platforms, whether internal AI platforms or offerings such as CoPilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock, and/or Azure AI Gateway
• Proficient in Programming & ML Tool. Strong Python skills required, with experience in AI/ML frameworks. Ability to review and write ML code to implement security measures (e.g., model validation, adversarial testing) is desired.
• You have 5+ years of relevant professional experience or demonstrated an equivalent level of expertise in security engineering, such as cloud, API, or platform security.
• You have 3+ years of experience embedded identity, network, and encryption controls into enterprise platforms
• You can effectively partner and collaborate with stakeholder teams.
• You have effective communication skills and the ability to outline security risks to leadership.
• You are familiar with cloud and API security vendors and managed services providers.

Nice To Haves

• You have knowledge and experience with technologies including Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD, and Cloud Service Providers
• You are familiar with function and purpose of key AI platform components such as AI gateways (Kong, Databricks Mosaic AI Gateway, custom API orchestration), Model Orchestration (Examples LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
• You are familiar with key AI regulatory frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, GDPR, EU AI Act, etc
• You have information Security certifications (CISSP, SANS GIAC, CISA, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Securing Capital Group's enterprise AI Platforms
• Building and/or procuring solutions to protect a diverse set of enterprise AI platforms
• Collaborating with platform engineering, security engineering, and risk teams
• Providing mentoring, advising diverse teams across the organization, and promoting AI Security principles
• AI Security Procurement Managements
• Embedding Security in the AI Platform Ecosystem
• Implementing Security Controls & "Guardrails" for GenAI
• AI Runtime Security
• AI Governance
• Contribute to Standards and Policies
• AI/Agent SME

Benefits

• In addition to a highly competitive base salary, per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus plus a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.
• You can learn more about our compensation and benefits here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: No Education Listed