AVP Engineer, AI Security
LPL Financial · San Diego, CA · 1 wk ago
HybridInformation Technology$129k–$214k/yrFull-time
Job Overview
The AI Security Engineer is responsible for securing enterprise AI platforms, AI-enabled applications, LLM technologies, and agentic workflows. This role ensures AI security technologies are operationally ready, integrated, and optimized to meet enterprise security and operational requirements.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain AI security platform readiness across enterprise AI technologies, ensuring tools, sensors, and monitoring capabilities are fully operational and optimized
- Validate functionality, configuration, and deployment readiness of AI security platforms and controls across cloud and endpoint environments
- Drive continuous optimization of AI security tooling, integrations, and engineering practices aligned with enterprise standards
- Define AI security engineering requirements to support SOC monitoring, detection, and response capabilities
- Develop and operationalize AI-specific detection use cases, alerting logic, and prevention workflows
- Enable integration of AI telemetry into SOC workflows and enterprise security operations
- Build and mature AI incident response processes and escalation procedures
- Partner with SOC teams to enhance detection engineering and overall operational effectiveness
- Integrate AI security technologies with enterprise platforms including SIEM, SOAR, EDR, CSPM, CNAPP, and logging systems
- Operationalize telemetry pipelines and observability standards for AI systems
- Improve visibility into AI applications, model usage, prompt activity, and agent behavior
- Partner with cloud and endpoint security teams to optimize cross-platform integrations
- Establish governance frameworks and enforce security controls for AI systems operating in regulated environments
- Ensure alignment with compliance, regulatory, and enterprise security requirements
- Support audit readiness and validation of AI security controls
- Define policies for AI usage, access, monitoring, and automation
- Support risk assessments for AI platforms, integrations, and workflows
- Identify opportunities to automate security engineering and SOC processes
- Develop and promote best practices for secure AI engineering workflows
- Create enablement materials, workshops, and repeatable standards for AI security adoption
- Communicate AI security capabilities, risks, and priorities to technical and executive stakeholders
- Drive cross-functional alignment across Security, Engineering, Risk, and Architecture teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of security engineering experience
- 3+ years supporting or partnering with Security Operations (SOC) functions
- 1+ year of experience with AI security technologies, LLM platforms, agentic systems, or AI-enabled workflows
- Experience in cloud security monitoring, telemetry, and detection engineering
- Experience building automation workflows and engineering solutions
- Experience working within enterprise or regulated environments
Core Competencies
- AI Security Engineering
- Security Platform Integration (SIEM/SOAR and related technologies)
- Cross-Platform Security Architecture
- Automation and Orchestration
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and strategies to executive stakeholders
- Experience integrating enterprise security platforms and operational tooling
- Strong understanding of SIEM, SOAR, and security operations concepts
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI security monitoring platforms
- Experience securing enterprise AI or GenAI deployments
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor)
- Knowledge of prompt security, model governance, and agentic workflows
- Experience in financial services or other regulated industries