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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Security Engineer - **Company:** MCCARTHY & COMPANY, P.C. - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Lifecycle Management, Software System Penetration Testing, Audit Trail, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Cyber Security, Information Systems, Data Governance, Monitoring of Systems, Open Web Application Security, Role-Based Access Control, Security Information and Event Management, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Data Classification, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Devsecops - **Published:** August 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/323621/sr-ai-security-engineer-missouri-mo-st-louis ## About the Role * Bachelors degree in cybersecurity, computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n * Minimum five years of proven experience in an established security architecture, security engineering, architecture, or engineering role.\n * Working experience handling AI security in a production environment, including the assessment, governance, monitoring, or protection of AI applications, models, agents, or integrations.\n * Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles, including identity governance, least privilege, data protection, risk assessment, incident response, security architecture, and security governance.\n * Familiarity with OWASP LLM and AI risks, including prompt injection, indirect injection, jailbreaks, sensitive information disclosure, excessive agency, insecure output handling, and agent or tool-use security.\n * Practical understanding of generative AI architectures, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, APIs, and model or application lifecycle risks.\n * Ability to explain how risks such as indirect prompt injection or excessive agency would surface in a real agent workflow and how those risks could be detected, validated, and mitigated.\n * Experience evaluating security controls, technology vendors, data handling practices, privacy considerations, and third-party risk.\n * Ability to develop clear standards and communicate complex technical risks to engineers, product teams, business leaders, and executives.\n * Strong analytical, written, verbal, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.\n * Sound judgment, personal integrity, curiosity, and a demonstrated commitment to protecting confidential information.\n, * Experience with AI-security, application-security, cloud-security, data-security, DevSecOps, or security-monitoring tools.\n * Experience performing AI red teaming, adversarial testing, penetration testing, threat modeling, or control validation.\n * Familiarity with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or comparable AI-governance frameworks.\n * Experience integrating security controls into software development, cloud engineering, or platform operations.\n * Familiarity with data classification, DLP, audit logging, security information and event management, and privacy-by-design practices.\n * Relevant certifications such as CISSP, Security+, or a portfolio demonstrating comparable practical experience.\n ## Related Videos - [DevSecOps: Injecting Security into Mobile CI/CD Pipelines](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/273-devsecops-injecting-security-into-mobile-ci-cd-pipelines) - [Resilient by Design: Building Robust Architectures in High-Stakes Financial Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2106-resilient-by-design-building-robust-architectures-in-high-stakes-financial-systems) - [Thinking Differently - How to Make Money from Cyber Attacks & Cheats](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/745-thinking-differently-how-to-make-money-from-cyber-attacks-cheats) - [The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1015-the-ai-security-survival-guide-practical-advice-for-stressed-out-developers) - [The New AI Security Stack: Observe, Detect, Protect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100302-the-new-ai-security-stack-observe-detect-protect) - [DevSecOps: Security in DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/36-devsecops-security-in-devops) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/753-trustworthy-ai-starts-at-deployment-5-checks-before-you-ship) - [Dev Digest 164: AI Agents, AI Blindspots and MCP security problems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/578-dev-digest-164-ai-agents-ai-blindspots-and-mcp-security-problems) - [Dev Digest 210: AI Agents Are Go! 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