Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A security engineering role supporting next-generation application and AI security initiatives. Responsibilities include identifying vulnerabilities, improving secure development workflows, integrating security testing tools, and partnering with engineering teams.
Highlights
Fixed-term security engineering opportunity focused on modern application and AI security practices. The role provides exposure to enterprise security initiatives, automation, and secure development processes.
Description
Join a dynamic security team driving the next generation of application and AI security practices.
This 12-month Security Engineer opportunity supports enterprise initiatives by strengthening secure development, validating vulnerabilities, and helping teams build safer applications and AI-enabled services.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity partners to evaluate and implement application and AI security practices, tooling, and operational processes.Review application code, APIs, automation workflows, and AI-enabled services to identify security risks and improvement opportunities.Analyze results from security testing tools and validate findings, including assessing impact, filtering false positives, and guiding remediation efforts.Support dynamic application security testing and other vulnerability assessment methods across the development lifecycle.Integrate and help maintain automated security testing within CI/CD pipelines and secure SDLC workflows.Contribute to threat modeling and security design reviews for applications, AI-enabled solutions, and machine-learning systems.Research emerging AI/LLM security tools, methods, and attack techniques to help advance security capabilities.Develop clear documentation, standards, and repeatable processes to support application security and vulnerability management.Participate in proof-of-concept evaluations of new security technologies and solutions.
Skills
4+ years of relevant technical experience in application security, product security, cybersecurity engineering, or software engineering.Hands-on experience validating findings from automated security tools and determining severity, impact, and remediation steps.Experience with dynamic application security testing and application vulnerability assessment practices.Ability to perform security-focused code reviews and identify common application vulnerabilities in at least one modern programming language.Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10, API security risks, secure coding principles, and secure SDLC practices.Experience supporting security activities in CI/CD pipelines and across the software development lifecycle.Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams.
Preferred Skills
Experience in enterprise DevSecOps environments.Familiarity with AI/LLM security, adversarial testing concepts, or AI security frameworks.Experience helping secure AI-enabled applications or evaluating emerging AI-related security risks.Background working with AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.Exposure to SAST, software composition analysis, or runtime application security tools.Experience securing cloud-native, containerized, or Kubernetes-based applications.Relevant certifications such as CSSLP, CISSP, OSCP, GSEC, or GIAC application security credentials.
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We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply and support equitable opportunities throughout the hiring process.
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