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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal AI Security Engineer - **Company:** Cerebras Systems - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Audit Trail, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, IT Management, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, OAuth, Role-Based Access Control, Secure Coding, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Security, Build Management, AI Platforms, Git Flow, Kubernetes, Build Tools, Machine Learning Operations, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b9d9923ac22f93a4 ## About the Role * 10+ years of experience in security engineering, platform security, infrastructure security, product security, or related technical security roles. * Strong hands-on engineering ability in Python and at least one additional production * Experience designing, building, operating, and improving security controls as * Strong cloud and infrastructure security experience, preferably with AWS, including IAM, networking, secrets management, logging, and cloud-native control planes. * Deep understanding of identity and access systems, including SSO, MFA, OAuth, service accounts, workload identity, authorization, privileged access, and least privilege. * Practical experience securing runtime environments such as containers, Kubernetes, isolated workloads, secure development environments, distributed compute platforms, or production service infrastructure. * Familiarity with AI security, LLM application security, agentic workflows, MCPs, prompt injection, autonomous coding agents, or AI platform security. * Ability to reason about cross-system risk involving identity, data, models, tools, networks, workflows, approvals, and automation. * Strong written communication skills and the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders across Security, Product, IT, Infrastructure, and Engineering. ## Description Cerebras is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to lead hands-on security engineering for enterprise IT, infrastructure, AI platforms, and agentic systems. In this role, you will design and build security controls for systems that support training, inference, model serving, customer workloads, internal automation, and AI-assisted development. You will work across product, cloud, infrastructure, identity, runtime, data, and developer platforms to protect sensitive data, enterprise and customer environments, models, tools, agents, and control planes. This is a principal IC role for someone who can turn ambiguous AI and platform security risks into practical architecture, reusable controls, and production-ready systems that teams can adopt by default., * Define security architecture and build controls for AI platforms, training and inference workflows, model-serving systems, customer workloads, developer workflows, and agentic * Develop reusable AI and agent security patterns for identity, authorization, delegated authority, scoped tool access, MCPs, connectors, secrets, approvals, isolation, auditability, and * Design runtime controls that constrain execution, access, data exposure, model and tool interaction, and blast radius. * Build security capabilities as code using infrastructure as code, configuration as code, policy as code, GitOps, CI/CD, and automated validation. * Define secure development patterns for AI systems, agents, prompts, tools, models, policies, evaluations, releases, and rollback. * Automate security reviews, policy checks, evidence collection, control validation, and remediation * Instrument AI, agent, and platform activity with telemetry, traceability, policy decisions, audit logs, anomaly signals, and response workflows. * Lead hands-on security reviews and influence product, platform, infrastructure, and security architecture through practical design changes and reusable controls., We do not expect every candidate to have worked across all of these areas, but we value depth in several: * AI, ML, training, inference, model-serving, or large-scale compute * Coding agents, agent platforms, MCP servers, internal developer platforms, or AI-assisted development environments. * Workload identity, secrets brokers, token brokers, short-lived credentials, privileged access, or zero-standing-privilege architectures. * Policy-as-code, authorization services, runtime enforcement layers, or security control * Software delivery security, including source control, CI/CD, build systems, artifacts, provenance, signing, and release gates. * Detection, investigation, and response workflows for cloud, infrastructure, identity, AI, or agent ## Related Videos - [The New AI Security Stack: Observe, Detect, Protect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100302-the-new-ai-security-stack-observe-detect-protect) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [The Private AI Platform: Why Agentic Apps Need a Private Application Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100162-the-private-ai-platform-why-agentic-apps-need-a-private-application-platform) - [Why Git Still Matters](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100288-why-git-still-matters) ## Related Articles - [Stephan Gillich - Bringing AI Everywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/489-stephan-gillich-bringing-ai-everywhere) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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