AI Prompt Security Engineer

About the role

This position is a hands-on engineering role centered on scripting, programming, and automation to protect GenAI and agentic systems. The role involves building the guardrails, detections, evaluation tooling, and reusable libraries that defend large language model and agentic applications against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool misuse.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain prompt-level security controls and guardrails for GenAI and agentic applications.
• Develop scripts, programs, and automation, primarily in Python, to operationalize prompt-security controls and policy enforcement.
• Build and maintain automated evaluation harnesses and regression test suites to validate prompt and agent behavior.
• Integrate prompt-security controls and tests into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.
• Build reusable libraries, SDKs, and templates to promote secure prompting and safe tool-use for engineering teams.
• Enforce identity and PHI/PII/data-protection controls at the prompt and tool-invocation layer.
• Operationalize findings from the automated AI red-team platform into prompt-layer fixes.
• Research and pilot prompt-security and LLM-defense tooling aligned to the NIST AI RMF and OWASP Top 10 for LLM.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field is required.
• A minimum of three years in software/security engineering, AI/ML, or platform engineering in a large enterprise setting is required, with a track record of building automation and tooling.
• Hands-on Python development and CI/CD integration experience is necessary.
• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in scripting, programming, and automation, especially with Python, are required.
• This includes sound practices in version control, testing, and CI/CD.
• Candidates must have knowledge of GenAI/LLM and agentic systems, secure MCP configuration, Application/API security, and data protection.
• A working knowledge of Identity and Access Management, data security/privacy controls, and cloud environment security fundamentals for Azure and AWS is also required.
• An applied understanding of the NIST AI RMF and OWASP Top 10 for LLM is essential.

Qualifications

• Education: A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field is required.

Skills

• Strong software-engineering fundamentals in scripting, programming, and automation, especially with Python, are required.
• This includes sound practices in version control, testing, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of GenAI/LLM and agentic systems, secure MCP configuration, Application/API security, and data protection.
• A working knowledge of Identity and Access Management, data security/privacy controls, and cloud environment security fundamentals for Azure and AWS is also required.
• An applied understanding of the NIST AI RMF and OWASP Top 10 for LLM is essential.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.