AI Security Engineer

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AI Security Engineer in Remote new

Alpaca
Full time
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Remote
11/04/2026
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Americas

Responsibilities

Define authentication, authorization, access, attribution, and audit controls for AI agents, bots, and automations.
Own security requirements for AI tool integrations, including least-privilege access, credential handling, data handling, secrets, and integration reviews.
Design and implement guardrails for AI applications and agents.
Review AI applications and integrations for security risks and provide practical security requirements to builders.
Assist Security Operations with AI-powered tooling for detection, investigation, and response.
Define security logging and telemetry requirements for AI systems and support detection development.
Maintain visibility into AI tool usage and verify compliance with approved configurations.
Lead AI-specific aspects of security incidents, including agent misuse and data exposure through AI tools.
Translate AI security standards into technical controls and partner with GRC on governance and control evidence.
Participate in the Security Operations on-call rotation after onboarding and cross-training.

Requirements

At least 2 years of experience in security engineering, application security, or cloud security roles.
Hands-on experience securing LLM applications, AI agents, or AI developer tools.
Understanding of AI-specific risks including prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and insecure tool use such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
Experience with identity and access controls for services and non-human identities, including OAuth, service accounts, and secrets management.
Programming experience in Python or another general-purpose language.
Experience with cloud-native deployments, security operations or incident response, AI-assisted security workflows, and security telemetry for AI systems.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain risk to non-security builders.
Ability to work cross-functionally, make pragmatic security decisions, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Preferred experience securing financial, trading, or other highly regulated platforms; enterprise AI coding tools and integrations; policy-as-code; Kubernetes; and AI governance frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework or ISO 42001.

Benefits

Competitive salary and stock options.
Health benefits.
One-time USD $500 new-hire home-office setup benefit.
USD $150 monthly stipend via a Brex Card.
100% distributed and remote Security team.

Salary: Competitive

Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-headquartered, self-clearing broker-dealer and a global leader in brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to stocks, ETFs, options, fixed income, and crypto. Alpaca delivers embeddable finance solutions for tokenization, fully paid securities lending, high-yield cash, 24/5 t...

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