Principal AI Technologist - US

About the role

Cyera is seeking a Principal AI Technologist to lead AI security technical efforts across strategic customers, field teams, and market-facing initiatives. This is a senior, field-facing role requiring deep AI and security expertise, strong customer engagement skills, and technical storytelling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior AI security subject matter expert for customers, prospects, partners, and internal teams.
• Help articulate Cyera’s AI security vision, platform value, and differentiated technical approach in customer-facing engagements.
• Engage in high-impact opportunities where deeper AI expertise can materially improve technical credibility, positioning, or deal quality.
• Partner with Field CTOs on the largest and most strategic engagements, while also independently leading AI-focused technical workstreams across the field.
• Work directly with customer technical and executive stakeholders to understand AI initiatives, governance challenges, risk posture, and architectural requirements.
• Lead AI-focused discovery sessions, technical deep dives, workshops, and strategic POV design.
• Support conversations involving AI governance, model usage, sensitive data exposure, data flows, access controls, posture management, and emerging AI security requirements.
• Design and deliver compelling AI security demos, solution narratives, and proof-of-value approaches that align with customer priorities.
• Improve the technical rigor and repeatability of AI-focused POVs and evaluations.
• Develop reusable technical patterns, reference architectures, and playbooks for common AI security use cases.
• Help the field ask better questions, identify stronger success criteria, and position Cyera more effectively in AI-related opportunities.
• Bring structured field insight back into Product and Engineering based on strategic customer engagements.
• Identify product gaps, recurring friction points, emerging market needs, and high-value requirements related to AI security.
• Help pressure-test roadmap themes and technical direction based on direct customer feedback.
• Act as a high-signal liaison between the field and internal teams on AI security priorities.
• PMM, Messaging, and Content
• Partner closely with PMM on AI security messaging, positioning, launches, and technical narrative.
• Contribute to clear, credible, differentiated technical storytelling across customer-facing materials.
• Enablement and Thought Leadership
• Help uplevel the field’s AI security fluency across Sales, SEs, and partner teams.
• Build or contribute to enablement materials, playbooks, workshops, and technical talk tracks.
• Represent Cyera at customer events, webinars, company events, and industry conferences as a technical voice on AI security.
• Partner with the Field CISO team and broader GTM organization to scale Cyera’s thought leadership and visibility in the market.

Required Qualifications

• Significant experience in senior technical roles such as Principal Technologist, Principal Solutions Architect, AI Security Architect, Distinguished Sales Engineer, Field Architect, or similar.
• Strong customer-facing experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, data security, AI security, or adjacent domains.
• Deep understanding of modern AI and GenAI environments, including enterprise AI adoption patterns, governance challenges, data exposure risks, and security controls.
• Strong understanding of areas such as data security, DSPM, DLP, IAM, cloud security, AI application risk, model and data governance, and security architecture.
• Experience engaging with both technical practitioners and senior stakeholders in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to turn complex technical concepts into clear business and technical value for customers.
• Proven ability to influence Product, PMM, and technical strategy through field insight and pattern recognition.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentations, workshops, and technical content review.
• Experience creating demos, POV strategies, technical assets, or enablement materials.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with cross-functional ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with enterprise AI initiatives, AI governance programs, or AI security use cases in the field.
• Background in data security, cloud security, AI security, DSPM, DLP, posture management, or related cybersecurity categories.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI platforms and cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and modern SaaS ecosystems.
• Experience working in or with high-growth startups.
• Ability to travel as needed.