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# Application Security Engineer

- **Company:** Source Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Open Web Application Security, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Software Security, GWAPT
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/86b61138-8b6a-4b8d-9c3c-d46d6cfc8077

## About the Role

We need a candidate with hands on Python automation and good exp in AI/ML & LLM

 * 10-15+ years in software engineering and application security, with substantial hands-on development experience (not security-adjacent - you've shipped code).
 * Strong Python for automation and tooling.
 * Proficiency with Claude Code - you use it daily and know your way around its extensibility (skills, subagents, hooks, slash commands, and MCP integrations) to build reusable security workflows and automation, with a clear-eyed view of its strengths and failure modes.
 * Working understanding of AI agents and agentic frameworks, and the emerging security concerns around them (OWASP LLM Top 10, agent tool permissions, prompt injection, supply-chain risk in model/tooling).
 * Depth in secure SDLC, threat modeling, and common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, API security, authn/authz).
 * The judgment to know when to automate, when to escalate, and when to just fix it yourself.

Nice to have

 * Experience securing production LLM/agentic systems or building internal AI security tooling.
 * Contributions to open-source security tools.
 * Relevant certifications (OSCP, GWAPT, CSSLP) - helpful, not required.