Staff AI Security Engineer

Addepar is seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to join its Information Security & Risk team. The role focuses on advancing AI security across Addepar’s platform and internal AI initiatives, while leading security architecture, risk mitigation, automation, and cross-functional security projects.

Responsibilities:

• Innovation & Strategy - Keep up with the latest trends, models and innovations in all facets of AI Security and advise on proper architectures
• Platform AI Security - Working with our Engineering and Application Security teams to ensure our products are leveraging AI in a secure manner across our platform
• AI Enablement -Partnering with our Architecture team to continue to evolve Addepar’s Internal AI Productivity initiatives by securely enabling our business to leverage AI to streamline processes and enhance productivity
• AI Guardrails - Advising or implementing guardrails and controls to minimize data loss risks and use of insecure or unapproved methods of AI use
• AI for Security - Guiding and Mentoring fellow Security teams on how to leverage AI for security benefits
• AI Governance - Ensure documentation and guidance for all employees is kept up to date and assist with any questions or concerns that arise
• Drive Security Initiatives: Lead and execute complex, project-driven security enhancements across the organization’s infrastructure, applications, and corporate environment
• Security Architecture & Design: Collaborate with engineering and product teams to architect, build, and deploy scalable, resilient security solutions
• Enablement & Automation: Build tools, guardrails, and automated workflows that empower development teams to ship secure code quickly and safely
• Risk Mitigation: Identify gaps in the current security posture, design remediation plans, and systematically execute them to maturity
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a trusted security advisor across engineering, product, and R&D teams, fostering a strong culture of security enablement rather than restriction
• Mentorship: Mentor junior and mid-level engineers within the Information Security & Risk team, helping to elevate collective technical capabilities

Requirements:

• 9+ years of dedicated experience in security engineering, application security, infrastructure security, data security or cloud security roles
• Proven track record of taking vague security problems, turning them into structured project plans, and executing them to completion
• Attention to details and analytical skills
• Curious, always learning and deeply interested in Information Security
• Ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partners
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners
• Deep expertise in all aspects of AI including AWS Services, LLM's, MCP, Agentic Agents, Frameworks, Governance & Regulations, Attacks, Guardrails and solid understanding of costs
• Amazon Web Services across its most widely used services, especially Security services
• Strong experience and understanding with Authentication & Authorization protocols. and how non-human identities can be secured appropriately
• A Software Engineering background is a strong plus
• AI based certification such as AAISM, AAIA or CAISP
• Knowledge and Experience with AI based frameworks such as NIST AI Framework or EU Artificial Intelligence Act
• Knowledge and Experience with MITRE ATLAS or OWASSP Top 10 for LLM's
• Bachelors or Masters Degree with a focus in Information Systems/Computer Science/Security