AI Prompt Engineer - Charlotte, Nc

About the role

A large enterprise organization is hiring an AI Prompt Engineer to join a GenAI security research and development team in Charlotte. This team is focused on cybersecurity assessment and SAST/DAST scanning of frontier AI models, using advanced prompting techniques to identify vulnerabilities, security weaknesses, and potentially malicious behavior. In this role, you will develop complex, context-aware AI prompts and prompting harnesses used for cyber defense testing. You will apply advanced prompting techniques to areas such as penetration-style testing, perimeter and port scanning, certificate misuse detection, vulnerability discovery, and other security assessments. You will also work closely with data engineering and threat-hunting teams to ensure AI-generated findings are captured, structured, investigated, and remediated appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced AI prompts and prompting harnesses for cybersecurity testing
• Apply prompting techniques to vulnerability and penetration-style testing
• Support perimeter scanning, port scanning, and certificate misuse detection
• Test and iterate prompts across multiple frontier AI models
• Analyze model responses and refine prompting strategies based on findings
• Work with data engineering teams to structure and capture AI-generated security findings
• Collaborate with threat hunters to determine which findings require further investigation or remediation
• Contribute to GenAI security research and experimentation

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience developing complex, advanced AI prompts
• Strong cybersecurity background and understanding of vulnerabilities, malware behavior, and ingress/egress security issues
• General software development experience using Python, Go, .NET, or another programming language
• Experience building context-aware prompting workflows or AI harnesses
• Experience working with frontier AI models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar platforms
• Database experience with PostgreSQL, Elastic, Cloud SQL, or comparable technologies
• Ability to speak in detail about specific AI prompting projects and security use cases
• Experience with SAST or DAST security testing
• Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or security research experience
• Cloud computing experience
• Kubernetes or GKE experience
• Experience working with GenAI security research or model evaluation
• Experience partnering with data engineering or threat-hunting teams

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 401(k)

Pay

Competitive hourly compensation (contract opportunity).