Come join Earths most customer-centric company! Amazon is looking for an Sr. AI Security Engineer with strong insight and passion for security to ensure our AI applications are designed and built to the highest standards. Your mission is to secure the AI experiences of hundreds of millions of our customers. You bring AI security talent and expertise to a fast-paced environment where you will be relied upon to partner with our talented software development teams in building secure AI applications.
As an Sr. AI Security Engineer you will work with software development teams to ensure the security of AI applications. You will review code for security issues build frameworks to help developers create more secure software and adjust designs to improve protection. You will also perform security research analyze bug reports conduct risk assessments develop automation maintain documentation and create tools that reduce security risks. Your work drives secure reliable AI applications for Amazons customers.
Key job responsibilities
- You will create update and maintain threat models for a wide variety of AI-based software projects.
- You will perform manual and automated code review primarily in Java Python and JavaScript
- You will develop AI security automation tools.
- You will perform AI security training and outreach for internal development teams.
- You will provide AI security architecture and design guidance.
- You will independently solve AI security problems that require novel methods or approaches.
- You will influence your teams and partners process priorities and choices to improve outcomes.
About the team
About Amazon Security:
Diverse Experiences
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Why Amazon Security
At Amazon security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazons products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud devices retail entertainment healthcare operations and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security its in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas perspectives and voices.
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.
The AppSec AI team is tasked with empowering the business to create secure trustworthy AI applications that our customers find delightful to use. We engage closely with the business from the outset of the development process to ensure that security considerations are integrated early and consistently. This collaborative approach positions us as partners with the business minimizing the need for security trade-offs. Our close work with product teams allows us to participate in deep technical discussions and decisions. We prioritize obtaining the right training and career growth opportunities enabling us to Dive Deep and Earn Trust with our development teams.
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- Knowledge of GenAI systems and associated security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques including penetration testing and the development of exploits or equivalent
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security.
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent plus 5 years of security engineering experience.
- Experience with AWS products and services
- Experience with programming languages such as Python and Java
- Experience with with threat modeling AI Agent based systems.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.