About this role
AI Information Security Engineer secures SNHU’s AI systems, models, and agent workloads from development through production by applying threat modeling, AI security frameworks, and automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Document AI components and data flows
- Identify attack surfaces and threat modeling
- Translate threats into security requirements
- Implement AI security controls per frameworks
- Build automated security testing for AI in CI/CD
- Instrument logging and monitoring; dashboards
Technical Overview
Hands-on security engineering for AI/ML systems; implements controls across data ingestion, training, inference, and deployment; ensures privacy and monitoring of AI systems; integrates with AI engineering teams.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a senior AI security engineer with 5+ years in IT/cybersecurity, with 2+ years securing AI/ML workloads; strong threat modeling and implementation of AI security controls; able to design guardrails and monitor AI systems in production.
Must-Have Skills
5+ years of experience in IT or cybersecuritywith engineering responsibilities2+ years of experience securing AI/ML systems or adjacent domains with demonstrated application to AI workloadsExperience with authenticationauthorizationloggingand monitoringExperience with AI/ML concepts such as modelstraining datainference pipelinesembeddingsand agent frameworksExperience modeling data flowstrust boundariesand attack paths in AI systemsExperience mitigating threats such as prompt injectionmodel poisoningdata leakageExperience implementing controls such as input validationoutput filteringcontext isolationand abuse detection
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF (preferred)Experience building automated security testing for AI systemsExperience with RAG pipelinesFamiliarity with governance and AI policy
Tools & Platforms
CI/CD pipelinesLogging and monitoring platformsIAM systemsKey management systemsRAG pipelines
Required Skills
Threat modelingOWASP LLM Top 10NIST AI RMFCI/CD security testing (SASTDASTSCA)AI/ML platform securityIAMdata protection and privacy (PII redaction)runtime safeguardslogging/monitoringencryptionagent frameworks
Hard Skills
Threat modelingOWASP LLM Top 10NIST AI RMFCI/CD security testing (SASTDASTSCA)AI/ML platform securityModel governanceIdentity and access management (IAM)Data protection and privacy (PII redaction)Runtime safeguardsSecurity controls for AI pipelinesEmbeddingspromptscontext handlingLoggingmetricstracesAbuse detectionRAG pipelines
Soft Skills
CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingAttention to detailAdaptability
Certifications
Required
CISSPCCSP
Preferred
AWS Certified Security - SpecialtyAzure Security EngineerGoogle Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Keywords for Your Resume
ai information security engineerai securityml securityprompt injectionmodel poisoningdata leakagellm top 10nist ai rmfci/cd securitysastdastscaiamencryptionprivacypii redactionrag pipelinesembedded promptsembeddingsmodel governanceai governancesecure aithreat modelingai security engineerAI/ML securityNIST AI RMFOWASP LLM Top 10IAMdata protectionPII redactionruntime safeguardsCI/CD security
Deal Breakers
Less than 5 years IT/cybersecurity experience, No experience with AI/ML security, Lack of threat modeling experience
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