Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Softgic is seeking an AI Application Security Engineer to lead the security execution of an autonomous AI agent platform. This role involves validating the platform's security posture throughout the development lifecycle and working closely with cross-functional teams to identify vulnerabilities and ensure security readiness for reviews.
Responsibilities
- Lead the security execution of an autonomous AI agent platform
- Validate the platform's security posture throughout the development lifecycle
- Focus on AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, tool misuse, secrets management, authorization, and auditability
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Platform teams to identify vulnerabilities early
- Perform threat modeling and define security controls
- Ensure the platform is ready for internal and external security reviews before release
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in Application Security, Product Security, or Secure Software Development Lifecycle (Secure SDLC)
- Hands-on experience performing threat modeling and security reviews for modern applications
- Strong understanding of application security principles, authentication, authorization, and secrets management
- Experience identifying and mitigating security risks in AI applications, LLMs, or autonomous agent systems
- Familiarity with prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, tool misuse, jailbreak techniques, and AI-specific attack vectors
- Experience reviewing audit logging, security controls, and compliance requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an adversarial security mindset
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle
- Advanced conversational English (B2+)
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