Manager, AI Security

About the role

KPMG Advisory is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for individuals to advance their careers and expertise. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. As a Securing AI Manager, you will lead client engagements focused on AI security, governance, and risk management, helping organizations adopt AI securely and responsibly.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver client engagements focused on AI security, governance, and risk management across generative AI and agentic AI platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and emerging AI technologies
• Advise clients on secure AI adoption by designing and implementing AI security architectures, governance frameworks, guardrails, monitoring capabilities, and controls that enable responsible and scalable use of AI
• Assess and strengthen the security of AI applications, agents, copilots, and supporting ecosystems by evaluating identity, access, data protection, model security, and operational risk
• Design and implement security controls for agentic AI environments, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) security, non-human identities, AI agents, delegated permissions, and secure interactions between AI systems and enterprise applications
• Lead AI security testing activities, including assessments for prompt injection, jailbreak techniques, data leakage, model misuse, excessive permissions, and other emerging AI threats, while providing strategic remediation recommendations
• Supervise, mentor, and develop professionals across AI security engagements; contribute to solution development, thought leadership, market offerings, and practice growth initiatives while fostering a high-performing team environment
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment

Requirements

• Minimum five years of recent experience in cybersecurity, IAM, application security, cloud security, AI governance, AI security, or related disciplines; and two years of AI Security experience
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in computer science, information security, information systems, engineering, or a related field
• Strong experience securing generative AI and agentic AI platforms, including AI governance, AI security architecture, secure AI solution development, and implementation of AI guardrails and security controls
• Experience with AI platform security and configuration, including technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or similar enterprise AI platforms
• Demonstrated knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) security, AI agent security, agentic AI control frameworks, and Identity & Access Management (IAM), including management of human and non-human identities
• Experience designing and implementing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege access models, AI logging, monitoring, auditability, observability, and security controls to support regulatory and governance requirements
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, presentation, and client relationship skills with the ability to gain the confidence and respect of senior executives
• Travel up to 50% may be required
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future (KPMG will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity)

Benefits

KPMG offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plans
• A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, based on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service
• Two annual breaks where employees are not required to use Personal Time Off (one at year-end and one around the July 4th holiday)
• Paid holidays as published annually

Additional details about benefits can be found on the KPMG US Careers site.

Pay

KPMG complies with all local and state regulations regarding pay transparency. Salary ranges are determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and market considerations. For roles outside California, salary ranges by city can be found here.