AI Security & Controls Lead

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🌽 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

• Partnering directly with AI Engineers & Developers, Information Security and governance teams to define AI-specific security and risk management standards covering AI/ML models, RAG solutions, and agentic architectures. • Translating enterprise security principles and risk frameworks into AI-appropriate guidance, addressing topics such as, model access control and abuse prevention, prompt and context security, data leakage, memorization, and inference risks, agent autonomy boundaries and safeguards • Define AI runtime monitoring and incident response expectations, aligned to (and extending as needed) existing incident response playbooks. • Ensuring AI security guidance remains aligned with evolving technology patterns, external expectations, and internal architectures, and external expectations (e.g. NIST AI RMF/CSF, NYDFS AI Cybersecurity, ISO/IEC 42001) • Contributing to the broader AI policy hierarchy by ensuring security requirements are clearly mapped to AI governance policies, controls and standards. • Partnering with third-party risk and supplier governance teams to Identify AI-specific risks introduced by vendors, models, platforms, and APIs. • Defining AI security control expectations for vendors and managed services • Supporting evaluation of vendor AI security posture, including training data handling, model protections, monitoring, and incident response capabilities. • Contributing AI-specific input to due diligence, onboarding, and ongoing vendor risk assessments. • Acting as a trusted advisor to AI engineering, product, privacy, and security teams on how to safely design and deploy AI systems. • Providing practical guidance that balances security rigor with business velocity. • Helping teams understand what “secure by design” means for AI, without imposing 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), Agentic and tool-using AI patterns • Demonstrated 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; ability to create clear, defensible documentation. • Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., AAISM, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, AIGP, cloud security certifications). • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ 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