Senior AI Security Engineer

Vikat.AI is a company focused on AI security solutions, and they are seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to architect and build security frameworks. The role involves collaborating with customer security teams and developing detection and response strategies for various security scenarios.

Responsibilities:

• Architect runtime policy engines that govern agent tool-use, data access, and decision authority
• Build detection and response primitives for prompt-injection, data-exfiltration, and rogue-agent scenarios
• Partner with customer security teams during deployments and incident reviews
• Drive the agent-security threat model used across our reference architecture

Requirements:

• 5+ years in security engineering — application, cloud, or identity security
• Hands-on with at least one LLM agent framework and the OWASP LLM Top 10
• Strong systems-thinking; comfortable in Python or Go and modern cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Track record of shipping security software that customers actually deployed
• Experience with policy engines (OPA, Cedar) or zero-trust architectures
• Prior contributions to security frameworks or open-source security projects