Senior AI Security Engineer

Salary: Up to £120,000 + Bonus & Excellent Benefits

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to join a leading global financial institution, working on the development and security of the organisation's next-generation Generative AI and LLM-based applications .

This is a specialist engineering role focused on designing, developing and enhancing a GenAI prompt security platform , helping protect enterprise AI applications from prompt injection, adversarial attacks and emerging AI security threats .

You will work closely with Engineering, Cyber Security and Operations teams across the organisation to build secure, scalable solutions and automated security testing capabilities for a range of LLM use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, optimise and enhance a GenAI prompt security platform .
• Build and automate security testing frameworks to validate protection mechanisms across different LLM use cases.
• Develop security controls and solutions to protect against prompt injection and adversarial attacks .
• Design and implement secure APIs and reusable security libraries .
• Contribute to the architecture and design of enterprise AI security solutions.
• Ensure solutions are designed to operate reliably and securely at enterprise scale .
• Contribute to system architecture, design patterns, scalability and reliability.
• Work closely with Engineering, Cyber Security and Operations stakeholders across global teams.
• Support the development of AI security standards and best practices across the organisation.

Key Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience in software engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Strong programming experience with Python and/or Go .
• Strong experience designing and implementing secure APIs and enterprise software solutions .
• Background in Cyber Security Engineering, DevSecOps or MLSecOps .
• Experience with Generative AI, LLM frameworks, prompt engineering and/or adversarial testing .
• Experience contributing to enterprise architecture and system design .
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, scalability and enterprise software development.
• Experience working with containerised environments , such as Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Experience delivering solutions across large and complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

What's on Offer

• Salary of up to £120,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits Package .
• Hybrid working in London.
• Opportunity to work on next-generation AI security technology within a global investment banking environment.
• Exposure to large-scale Generative AI, LLM and Cyber Security transformation .
• Opportunity to help shape AI security capabilities across a global organisation.

If you are an experienced AI Security Engineer, Cyber Security Engineer, Software Security Engineer or DevSecOps/MLSecOps professional with experience across Generative AI, LLM security or secure enterprise platforms, we'd be keen to hear from you.