Sr Staff Engineer - AI Security

GEICO • Bethesda, MD

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About The Position

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior (Sr) Staff Engineer to provide enterprise strategy and support for AI security. You will proactively and holistically lead and support security activities that guide the design, development, security of code, and code repositories for agentic enterprise and consumer applications and services. Position Description: Our AI Security Sr. Staff Engineer is a senior level position that reports to the Sr Director of Product Security and works closely with senior leaders, development teams, product teams, and others across the organization to integrate security into the product lifecycle. The AI Sr Security Staff Engineer is a subject matter expert in defining the AI security strategy for GEICO as well as security requirements for AI and agentic applications, defining secure application design, performing security assessments, threat modeling, and providing developers with remediation guidance and solutions. On any given day, the AI Security Sr. Staff Engineer can be pulled in to evaluate a new system, review a proposed application design, or provide solutions for AI security/coding best practices.

Requirements

• Expert knowledge in AI and agentic applications, services, design patterns, and protocols (e.g., skills, agents, MCPs, etc.)
• Hands-on AI product development experience, with strict SLA and SLR, using a mature S-SDLC.
• Direct experience working with development teams to define, develop and document secure solutions
• Experience breaking down complex systems and applications to find flaws with analysis and threat modeling
• Strong familiarity with common vulnerabilities and attack vectors
• Knowledge of ubiquitous encryption technologies (PGP, SSH, SSL, etc.) and common authentication protocols (OpenID Connect, OAUTH, SAML, RADIUS, LDAP, KERBEROS, etc.)
• Solid understanding of secure network, system, and service design in cloud (Azure, AWS etc.) and conventional environments
• Understanding and applied use of OWASP Top 10, NIST SP800 Series, NIST CSF, FIPS 140-2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, etc.
• Knowledge of various aspects of a technology architecture like integration, network, and security
• Advanced understanding and knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies (such as agentic development, waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps/ SecDevOps)
• Exposure to multiple, diverse security technologies, platforms, and processing environments
• Strong command of strategic and emerging security/ cloud technology trends, and the practical application of existing and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
• Good understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt
• Experience collaborating closely with senior executives on strategic initiatives
• A background integrating security testing into the SDLC
• Experience providing security training to developers
• Ability to find security defects within programming languages such as Go, Rust, Java, Python, Object C, and mobile device languages
• Demonstrated experience using SCA, DAST, and SAST tools and services
• 10+ years planning and designing application security, cloud security, systems security, or platform security
• 10+ years of experience in at least two security solution design and development disciplines, including technical or security infrastructure architecture, cloud security, network security management, secure application development or secure cloud development.
• 6+ years of experience in application and open-source security
• 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in AI development and frameworks

Nice To Haves

• One or more of the following Cybersecurity certifications are highly desired: Security+, Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Software Security Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Responsibilities

• Work independently with developers, system/network engineers, product owners, and other engineers to ensure secure design, development, and implementation of AI and agentic based applications
• Drive AI Security strategy across GEICO
• Develop secure agentic development best practices standards and drive adoption across the developer community
• Define and document secure architecture patterns and anti-patterns
• Perform security architecture design reviews of our products including web applications, services, and mobile applications.
• Define security best practices and standards and partner with Product Development teams to implement them.
• Provide remediation guidance and recommendations to developers and engineers.
• Serve as a technical advisor and consultant to colleagues and GEICO leadership on the implementation of the Cybersecurity security policy and standards.
• Provide technical thought leadership for integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design, and ensuring integrity of GEICO mission objectives, while protecting GEICO assets from cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Work with Product Development teams to help prioritize and validate urgency of mitigation of identified product vulnerabilities and security feature enhancement requests
• Interface with the Product and Cyber Security teams to track security feature enhancement requests
• Help develop actionable insights, prioritizing the work, based on risk, and impact, and allocate resources effectively, using Geico specific large data sets.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level