Senior Security Engineer, AGI Security

Amazon.com, Inc.•New York, NY

63d

About The Position

The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is focused on building world-class general-purpose intelligence services. Its primary mission involves developing highly autonomous systems through novel model architectures, learning, and inference strategies. The team works on creating a family of new Generative AI models and applications that are efficient and capable. As a Security Engineer within the AGI Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that AGI large language models and applications are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust. You will tackle a diverse array of security challenges, ranging from novel threats in Generative AI to selecting and implementing scalable and secure features such as key management solutions and encrypted storage. You will collaborate with applied scientists, software engineers, security engineers, as well as internal partners and external researchers to develop innovative technologies to solve some of our hardest security problems, and build paved path solutions that builder teams can adopt while building Generative AI models and applications.

Requirements

4+ years of non-internship background in troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools experience
5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
4+ years of (non-internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
Experience (non-internship) in industry-based security vulnerabilities identification, attack patterns, and remediation techniques
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice To Haves

Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services

Responsibilities

Perform threat modeling and ensure adequate security controls are in place for AGI models, applications, and infrastructure
Influence builders to be better security owners, actively engaging with them to innovate faster and develop scalable mechanisms for upholding the high security bar.
Create and maintain security documentation, including designs patterns, implementation guides, and secure software development kits (SDKs)
Simulate Generative AI adversarial attacks against AGI infrastructure.
Contribute to security automation tooling for building new Generative AI detection and tooling capabilities
Identify actionable and scalable mitigations for identified vulnerabilities, and collaborate with AGI product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.
Mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.