Agentic Security Engineer

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Agentic Security Engineer in USA

NXP Semiconductors
Full time
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USA
09/13/2026
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Austin, TX

Responsibilities

Translate security requirements and operational risks into runtime enforcement and execution control mechanisms.
Assess the security of agentic AI systems, orchestration frameworks, MCP servers, APIs, plugins, external tools, and enterprise integrations.
Build and enhance execution tracing, logging, auditing, observability, and monitoring for AI agent activity.
Support detection, investigation, and operational security for unsafe or anomalous AI runtime behavior.
Implement controls for action validation, delegated authority, autonomous decision-making, and AI-driven execution workflows.
Collaborate with AI engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, enterprise security, and architecture teams on secure agentic AI deployment.
Assess risks involving prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, unauthorized actions, context manipulation, memory poisoning, and insecure agent behavior.
Support compliance with internal security requirements, applicable regulations, NIST AI RMF, and OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, information technology, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, runtime security, or related engineering roles.
At least 2 years of experience securing or supporting AI/ML/GenAI applications, platforms, or services.
Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, APIs, orchestration frameworks, AI-assisted development environments, and cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
Strong understanding of runtime security, policy enforcement, action validation, execution tracing, delegated authority controls, API security, IAM, observability, logging, and runtime monitoring.
Knowledge of AI-agent security risks, including unsafe tool execution, prompt injection, memory poisoning, context manipulation, and insecure agent behavior.
Working knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF.
Advanced degrees such as a master’s degree and AI/ML or cybersecurity certifications are preferred.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and initiative-management skills.

NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors designs and supplies microcontrollers, application processors (i.MX), analog/RF, secure connectivity, and automotive chips for OEMs in automotive, industrial/IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. A public company (NASDAQ: NXPI) founded in 2006 and headquartere...

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