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How will you make an impact in this role
American Express is seeking an AI/ML Security Engineer with proven strong competence in building implementing AI/ML application security governance and risk management processes. The Security Engineer serves as a domain expert in developing and maintaining comprehensive security requirements across a diverse number of technology stacks. This engineer plays a key role in assessing capabilities including Generative AI augmented LLM agentic cybersecurity solutions emerging risk security technologies and conducting proofofconcept evaluations to drive innovative capability adoption.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Identify analyze and benchmark Generative AI augmented LLM agentic security solutions in the market.
- Conduct proofofconcept (PoC) assessments of selected cybersecurity capabilities to validate effectiveness in realworld environments.
- Define security control baselines and evaluation criteria for emerging risk security solutions.
- Evaluate vendor claims solution architecture and technical scalability.
- Security testing of GenAIpowered cybersecurity tools.
- Publish detailed reports on the security compliance and efficacy of evaluated products.
- Deliver and integrate AI robustness vulnerability and stress testing capabilities with MLOps ecosystems.
- Evaluate and assess opensource AI security libraries to build into enterprise AI stress testing and audit capabilities.
- Implement secure model development life cycle practices with automated white box and black box assessments for AI/ML models.
- Consistently enable strong developer and customer experience when liaising with application teams. Uphold Blue Box values when liaising with application teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in data science Statistics Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- 2 years experience with Machine Learning Application Development.
- 3 years of software engineering experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters Degree PhDs Data Science Statistics Computer Science or Software Engineering.
- Machine Learning Operation Professional Certifications.
- Demonstrated peer reviewed journal publications conference presentations opensource contributions or similar activities.
- Strong knowledge of Adversarial Robustness techniques and tools for machine learning.
- Strong knowledge of AI Risk Management frameworks and Trustworthy AI practices.
- Handson experience with applying statistics machine learning algorithms (DNN NLP) big data and data science toolkits.
- Handson experience designing implementing and operationalizing high performant AI/ML pipelines and writing production code.
- Handson experience with deploying and operationalizing AI/ML models to public cloud environments.
- Handson experience evaluating opensource ML tools frameworks and libraries.
- Handson experience with commonly used data science programming languages packages and tools.
- Handson experience with MLOps DevOps DataOps and API integrations.
- Handson experience with AI workload management.
- Handson experience with Cloud architecture design implementation and operations.
- Knowledge of application security controls (Web API Mobile AI)
- Knowledge of security domains common information security management and application frameworks: NIST 80053 CSF OWASP ASVS.
- Knowledge of Secure SDLC Application Security design and DevSecOps.
- Full stack knowledge of application architectures including: Single Page Applications REST APIs SOAP APIs Mobile Applications.
- Experience with Java JavaScript and mobile application development.
- Knowledge or familiarity with database architectures including Oracle SQL DB2 and NoSQL Databases.
- Experience with Cloud security architecture design implementation and operations.
- Exposure to IAM Controls (OAuth 2.0 OIDC JWT)
- Strong familiarity with Cryptography Controls (Data at rest in motion).
- Certification CISSP CISM CSSLP CISA CRISC.
We back you with benefits that support your holistic wellbeing so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones physical financial and mental health as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- Support for financialwellbeing and retirement
- Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits (depending on location)
- Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
- Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
- Free access to global onsite wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
- Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
- Career development and training opportunities
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