Director of AI Security Engineering

About the role

The Director of AI Engineering will drive the solutions and participate in engineering for operating technical and governance controls that help secure MetLife enterprise AI systems, vendor products and supporting infrastructure. They will speed the safe adoption of AI deployment at MetLife to enable increased efficiency, better customer satisfaction, and market leadership. They will also operationalize and globally scale AI Security tooling suite to secure enterprise usage of AI with appropriate controls and tools without slowing the deployment.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical engineering for operating technical and governance controls that help secure MetLife enterprise AI systems, vendor products and supporting infrastructure.
• Speed the safe adoption of AI deployment at MetLife to enable increased efficiency, better customer satisfaction, and market leadership.
• Operationalize and globally scale AI Security tooling suite to secure enterprise usage of AI with appropriate controls and tools without slowing the deployment.
• Execute engineering for cutting edge Proof of Concepts for new tools that are changing rapidly to stay ahead of our industry competitors.
• Ensure we drive continuous improvement by identifying ways to harden environments, improve detection and response, and reduce manual operational effort.
• Lead a small team of dedicated professionals to provide global solutions for protecting MetLife AI functions.
• Lead the technical engineering for standardization and keep aware of the latest changes in the AI environment.
• Harden AI hosting environments, integrating security tooling into AI and application workflows, improving detection and monitoring, validating security configurations, and partnering with regional and response teams to drive risk reduction.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Technology and leading teams.
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of core cloud security concepts such as identity and access management, network segmentation, secrets management, encryption, logging and monitoring, workload isolation, secure configuration, and least privilege across modern cloud environments.
• Demonstrates a working understanding of how generative AI, machine learning, and agentic AI systems are built, deployed, and integrated, along with core risks such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, insecure output handling, model misuse, excessive agency, supply chain risk, and weak access controls.
• Experience implementing, tuning, or supporting security controls and tools in production environments, including monitoring, posture management, vulnerability management, data protection, identity, runtime security, or detection capabilities.
• Experience with container security and cloud foundation fundamentals, including images, pods, namespaces, RBAC, secrets handling, network policies, admission controls, and common misconfiguration risks.
• Experience with secure handling of sensitive data used by or exposed to AI systems, including data classification, access boundaries, privacy considerations, retention concerns, and data loss prevention concepts.

Qualifications

• CCSP or similar, SC-100, CKA/CKS, or AI-related security certifications (AI-900) is a plus.

Location Expectation

This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office. The expected salary range for this position is $140,000 - $210,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation and stock-based long-term incentives. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.

About MetLife

Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!