Security Engineer – AI (Offensive AI Security and Red Teaming)
ZAR 780K-780K (estimate) Senior-level Full Time
Tasks
- Conduct security reviews of AI applications
- Define AI security standards
- Design secure AI and ML architectures
- Develop AI incident response playbooks
- Develop AI threat detection use cases
- Develop and implement MCP security controls
- Enforce access governance
- Engineer detections within EDR
- Engineer detections within SIEM
- Engineer detections within XDR
- Establish AI attack simulation programs
- Establish AI security controls across AI lifecycle
- Execute vulnerability assessments and report findings
- Implement AI gateway security controls
- Implement DLP
- Implement content moderation
- Implement rate limiting
- Inspect AI traffic
- Investigate AI security incidents
- Monitor MCP activity and tool execution
- Perform AI threat hunting
- Perform AI threat modeling
- Perform offensive AI security assessments
- Perform prompt inspection and filtering
- Perform security testing of MCP integrations
- Protect APIs
- Run debrief sessions with stakeholders
- Secure enterprise AI ecosystems
- Test RAG for knowledge base poisoning and retrieval poisoning
- Test agent tool abuse and privilege escalation
- Test models for extraction inversion and membership inference
- Test prompts for prompt injection and jailbreaks
- Write custom adversarial scripts and fuzzers
Perks/Benefits
- N/A
Skills/Tech-stack
AI RMF | API Security | ART | AWS Bedrock | Access Governance | Adversarial Input | Adversarial Input Testing | Agentic AI | Anthropic API | Authentication | Authorization | Azure OpenAI | Burp Suite | Chroma | Counterfit | DLP | Data Loss Prevention | Data loss | Detection engineering | EDR | Embedding Models | Faiss | Garak | Git | Incident Response | Injection Attacks | Jailbreak testing | LLM | LLM Applications | Language Model | Large Language Model | Linux | Loss prevention | MITRE ATLAS | Machine Learning | Membership inference | Milvus | Model Evasion | Model Serving | Model extraction | Model inversion | Model poisoning | NIST AI | NIST AI RMF | OWASP Top | OWASP Top 10 | OWASP Top 10 for LLM | OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications | OpenAI API | Pinecone | Prompt injection | Pyrit | Python | RAG | Rate Limiting | Retrieval-Augmented Generation | SIEM | SSRF | Security Architecture | TextAttack | Threat detection | Threat hunting | Threat modeling | Vector Databases | Weaviate | XDR
Education
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