Senior Specialist, AI Security Engineering
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12 hours ago
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We are seeking a highly skilled passionate Senior AI Production & Security Engineer to join our Service AI Engineering team. This role will be pivotal in owning production application support for enterprise AI applications and in leading security engineering efforts to protect intellectual property (IP). We encourage you to apply if youre a deeply technical engineer with strong security instincts operational excellence and clear leadership potential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead an AI security testing and adversarial assessment program (e.g. prompt injection jailbreaks data exfiltration tool/plugin abuse) including repeatable test plans automation and regression gates.
- Own production application support for enterprise AI applications: incident triage root-cause analysis remediation and post-incident improvements with measurable reliability outcomes
- Build and operate observability and monitoring to understand and detect suspicious or unsafe user interaction patterns (abuse detection anomaly signals alerting) aligned with privacy and compliance needs.
- Design and implement IP protection and safety guardrails (sensitive data detection/redaction policy enforcement access-control verification safe tool-use constraints audit trails).
- Drive secure-by-design architecture via threat modeling for AI application changes (model retrieval/data access tools/agents) and ensure mitigations are implemented before release.
- Establish and enforce DevSecOps practices for AI applications (CI/CD security gates dependency hygiene secrets management least privilege vulnerability management secure rollout/rollback).
- Provide senior technical leadership: mentor engineers lead design reviews partner with corporate security and engineering stakeholders and set standards that raise security and production quality.
Qualifications:
- Proven experience leading security initiatives (threat modeling vulnerability management incident response secure architecture reviews) and driving cross-team remediation
- Hands-on experience securing cloud-native applications (containers Kubernetes CI/CD secrets management IAM/RBAC logging/monitoring)
- Familiarity with AI/LLM security risks and mitigations (prompt injection/jailbreaks data exfiltration unsafe tool use evaluation gates)
- Strong programming and troubleshooting skills (Python preferred) and ability to build automation for testing monitoring and response workflows
- Excellent communication and leadership potentialable to lead technical programs influence stakeholders and mentor others
- Prior experience in a similar industry and/or protecting proprietary IP in high-assurance environments is a plus
Minimum Qualifications
Masters Degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Cybersecurity or related field. 10 years of experience in security engineering production engineering DevSecOps or closely related roles including ownership of production systems.
We offer a competitive family friendly total rewards package. We design our programs to reflect our commitment to an inclusive environment while ensuring we provide benefits that meet the diverse needs of our employees.
KLA is proud to be an equal opportunity employer
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- CCTV
- Low Voltage
- Network Management
- IDS
- Computer Networking
- Field Service
- ICD Coding
- Military Experience
- Security
- Security System Experience
- Information Security
- Troubleshooting
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