AI Security & Controls Lead

🕒 August 8

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Alight Solutions

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10,000+ employees

🤝 B2B

🏥 Healthcare

☁️ SaaS

💰 $22.5M Post-IPO Secondary - Alight Solutions on 2023-08

B2B • Healthcare • SaaS

Alight Solutions is a leading benefits administration provider that delivers health, wealth, leave, and related HR point solutions for large organizations and their employees. The company helps manage benefits administration and human capital-related processes for enterprises, serving many of the world’s largest organizations and over 30 million people. Alight also emphasizes product and technology roles, corporate sustainability, total rewards, and a focus on transforming lives and organizations by maximizing health, financial and work wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Define, implement, and evaluate AI-specific security and risk controls across the AI lifecycle • Partner with AI engineers, developers, information security, privacy, governance, and risk teams to define AI security and risk management standards • Translate enterprise security principles and risk frameworks into AI-appropriate guidance • Address model access control, abuse prevention, prompt and context security, data leakage, memorization, inference risks, and agent autonomy safeguards • Define AI runtime monitoring and incident response expectations • Keep AI security guidance aligned with evolving technology patterns, external expectations, and internal architectures • Map security requirements to AI governance policies, controls, and standards • Identify AI-specific risks introduced by vendors, models, platforms, and APIs • Define AI security control expectations for vendors and managed services • Support evaluation of vendor AI security posture, due diligence, onboarding, and ongoing vendor risk assessments • Advise AI engineering, product, privacy, and security teams on safely designing and deploying AI systems • Provide practical guidance balancing security rigor with business velocity • Help teams implement secure-by-design AI without unnecessary friction

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience or equivalent expertise in information security, technology risk, AI governance, model risk management, privacy engineering, or related roles • Strong understanding of AI architectures, machine learning pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic and tool-using AI patterns • Ability to translate technical AI and security concepts into clear control expectations and guidance • Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, security, privacy, and risk teams • Practical, risk-based mindset with strong judgment and attention to detail • Excellent written communication skills and ability to create clear, defensible documentation • Relevant certifications preferred, such as AAISM, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, AIGP, or cloud security certifications • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience • Must have work authorization in the United States without requiring current or future visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One • Wellbeing programs • Retirement plans with contribution matching • Generous time off • Parental leave • Continuing education • Career growth opportunities • Flexible working arrangements • Competitive total rewards package • Continuing education and training • Bonus and/or incentive eligibility determined by role and level