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# Principal AI Security Engineer

- **Company:** Kyndryl, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $179,760 - $341,520
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Continuous Integration, Data Security, Fuzz Testing, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, Machine Learning, Routing, Microsoft Copilot, Secure Coding, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Software Security, AI Platforms, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Enterprise Integration, Machine Learning Operations, Prompt Injection, Golang
- **Published:** November 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/2B4F94B002BB4968B23AAEC89C0BA786/job/

## About the Role

* 10 or more years of experience in security engineering, application security, product security, cloud security, software engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
 * Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security, logging, monitoring, and secure development controls.
 * Experience implementing technical controls that are unique to the evolving AI risk landscape.
 * Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
 * Ability to conduct threat modeling and convert findings into working engineering solutions.
 * Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript., * Experience developing or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, or machine learning platforms.
 * Experience with AI gateways, model routing, RAG, vector databases, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
 * Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, or automated control validation.
 * Relevant security, cloud, application security, or AI engineering certifications.

## Description

Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities. This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate them into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.

What You Will Do

 * Design, develop, test, and deploy controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
 * Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
 * Implement identity, authorization, secrets, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
 * Perform AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
 * Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
 * Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
 * Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.