Security Engineer
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Brooklyn Park, MN, United States
3 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
4 years minimum
Compensation
$39,520.0 - $66,560.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Engineering
Code Review
Fuzz Testing
Machine Learning
Open Web Application Security
Secure Coding
Software Engineering
Software Vulnerability Management
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Large Language Models
Software Security
Kubernetes
Devsecops
Static Application Security Testing
Vulnerability Analysis
Programming Languages
Dynamic Application Security Testing
Job description
Join a dynamic security team driving the next generation of application and AI security practices. This 12-month Security Engineer opportunity supports enterprise initiatives by strengthening secure development, validating vulnerabilities, and helping teams build safer applications and AI-enabled services. Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering and cybersecurity partners to evaluate and implement application and AI security practices, tooling, and operational processes.
- Review application code, APIs, automation workflows, and AI-enabled services to identify security risks and improvement opportunities.
- Analyze results from security testing tools and validate findings, including assessing impact, filtering false positives, and guiding remediation efforts.
- Support dynamic application security testing and other vulnerability assessment methods across the development lifecycle.
- Integrate and help maintain automated security testing within CI/CD pipelines and secure SDLC workflows.
- Contribute to threat modeling and security design reviews for applications, AI-enabled solutions, and machine-learning systems.
- Research emerging AI/LLM security tools, methods, and attack techniques to help advance security capabilities.
- Develop clear documentation, standards, and repeatable processes to support application security and vulnerability management.
- Participate in proof-of-concept evaluations of new security technologies and solutions.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant technical experience in application security, product security, cybersecurity engineering, or software engineering.
- Hands-on experience validating findings from automated security tools and determining severity, impact, and remediation steps.
- Experience with dynamic application security testing and application vulnerability assessment practices.
- Ability to perform security-focused code reviews and identify common application vulnerabilities in at least one modern programming language.
- Working knowledge of OWASP Top 10, API security risks, secure coding principles, and secure SDLC practices.
- Experience supporting security activities in CI/CD pipelines and across the software development lifecycle.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical findings and recommendations to engineering teams.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in enterprise DevSecOps environments.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM security, adversarial testing concepts, or AI security frameworks.
- Experience helping secure AI-enabled applications or evaluating emerging AI-related security risks.
- Background working with AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
- Exposure to SAST, software composition analysis, or runtime application security tools.
- Experience securing cloud-native, containerized, or Kubernetes-based applications.
- Relevant certifications such as CSSLP, CISSP, OSCP, GSEC, or GIAC application security credentials.
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