Principal AI Security Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $203k - $254k / year

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Zip Co

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1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🛍️ eCommerce

💸 Finance

Fintech • eCommerce • Finance

Zip Co is a global ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ company that provides simpler and fairer payment solutions for millions of customers. With a mission to be the first payment choice everywhere and every day, Zip offers transparent, flexible, and interest-free credit to consumers and businesses. The company partners with major brands like Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, and Uber, focusing on people-centred innovation and financial empowerment.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical direction for securing AI applications, autonomous agents, and AI-enabled engineering workflows at Zip • Architect and build scalable security controls for LLM applications, RAG systems, and agentic AI platforms • Develop AI security testing, automation, and secure-by-default engineering practices • Define and implement security architecture for LLM applications, RAG, autonomous agents, and AI-powered products • Engineer protections against prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool execution, excessive agency, and other AI-specific threats • Establish secure patterns for model access, NHI access, authorization, secrets management, and sensitive data protection • Design security boundaries for AI agents interacting with enterprise systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure • Establish secure-by-default patterns, harnesses, and guardrails for AI coding assistants, autonomous development agents, and AI-generated software • Secure MCP servers, agent tool integrations, and AI-enabled development workflows • Build reusable security components, APIs, and automation integrated into engineering platforms and CI/CD pipelines • Build automated security testing and evaluation capabilities for AI applications and agents • Develop AI red teaming, prompt injection testing, and security regression testing • Implement monitoring and detection for suspicious AI behavior, unauthorized tool execution, and sensitive data exposure • Perform post-incident response for agent misalignment and partner with the Agentic Platform team to prevent recurrence • Leverage AI to automate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis, and remediation • Establish Zip's technical direction and engineering standards for AI security • Partner with engineering teams to take secure AI solutions from architecture through production • Design risk-tiering logic aligned with Zip's 5-level AI automation classification • Co-own the security evaluation framework for new AI models and third-party tools • Evaluate emerging AI technologies and security capabilities, making pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions • Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across security, platform engineering, and software development • Success includes scalable AI security architecture, reusable controls, integrated testing/monitoring/enforcement, reduced manual effort, and secure innovation

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated Staff or Principal-level technical leadership in security engineering, application security, or cloud security • Deep security engineering experience plus demonstrable hands-on work with LLM/agent systems • Intimate familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF • Strong understanding of LLM architectures, agentic systems, RAG, and modern AI development frameworks • Experience building AI security evaluations, red-teaming capabilities, model security gateways, and securing AI systems against prompt injection, data leakage, tool abuse, and unauthorized access • Strong software engineering skills, including proficiency in Python or another modern programming language • Experience with cloud-native architectures, APIs, containers, IAM, and modern software delivery practices • Ability to design and implement security controls, automation, and reusable engineering components • Experience threat modeling complex systems and translating security requirements into practical solutions • Strong technical leadership skills with the ability to influence architecture and engineering decisions across teams • A builder's mindset focused on automation, scalability, and secure-by-default engineering • Highly regarded: Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI APIs, Azure AI, Google Vertex AI, or similar technologies • Highly regarded: Experience securing MCP servers, autonomous coding agents, or agentic workflows • Highly regarded: Experience with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD security • Highly regarded: Experience in financial services, payments, or other regulated environments • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working culture • Incentive programs • Unlimited PTO • Generous paid parental leave • Leading family support policies • Company-sponsored 401k match • Learning and wellness subscription stipend • Beautiful Union Square office with a casual dress code • Industry-leading, employer-sponsored insurance for you and your dependents, with several 100% Zip-covered choices available • Bonus and/or commission awards may be included in total compensation • Visa sponsorship is not available for this position

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