Lead, Application and AI Security Engineer
About The Position
As a Lead Application and AI Security Engineer in our Digital Product Security organization, you will secure Under Armour’s portfolio of Direct-to-Consumer & Business-to-Business applications. As a secure software and AI security leader, you will drive secure-by-design development practices, establish security guardrails for AI-enabled solutions, and advance AI-powered security capabilities across our software development lifecycle. You will also build AI-based security capabilities and leverage industry-leading solutions to protect our customer applications and data spanning web applications, mobile applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs).
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/IT/engineering or a related discipline with typically 8 years of cyber security experience or Master's degree with typically 6 years of relevant experience or typically 12 years of relevant work experience without degree
- Understanding of how modern engineering teams build software using AI coding assistants, code generation platforms, and AI-powered services
- Requires 5+ years of application security experience
- Strong familiarity with OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and secure AI software development practices
- Strong familiarity with secrets detection, SAST, DAST, SCA, & API security testing
- Experience securing AI-enabled applications, including LLMs, AI agents, MCP integrations, prompt injection defenses, model governance, and data protection controls
- Experience using AI to code scripts that leverage APIs to build custom application security solutions
- Strong cross-functional teaming skills to coordinate and implement security enhancements with product and engineering teams
Responsibilities
- Define and execute our application and AI security strategy, policies, and roadmap across all of our software development teams
- Lead the integration of AI-powered security capabilities across the software development lifecycle
- Partner with engineering teams to embed security and AI controls into developer coding platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and applications
- Serve as the technical lead for AI security initiatives across web, mobile, API, and third-party AI service consumption
- Develop application and AI security standards for technology that consumes, integrates, or builds AI/ML capabilities
- Establish governance, guardrails and security requirements for the development, deployment, and operation of GenAI, LLMs, and agentic solutions
- Evaluate, pilot, and operationalize emerging AI security technologies
- Define acceptable use policies, code review requirements, data protection controls, and validation processes for AI-generated code
- Mentor developers, architects, and engineering leaders on secure application development practices
Benefits
- Paid "UA Give Back" Volunteer Days
- Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
- Competitive 401(k) plan matching
- Maternity and Parental Leave for eligible and FMLA-eligible teammates
- Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
