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Senior AI Security Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-17 Sydney NSW Full-time Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

A$16,667–A$20,833/mo (A$200,000–A$250,000/yr)

Market rate

A$11,000–A$17,000/mo (A$132,000–A$204,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

Responsibilities

  • Senior AI Security Engineer Secure the next generation of AI applications, agents, and platforms.
  • We're looking for a Senior AI Security Engineer to help build secure AI products at scale. You'll work alongside AI engineers, developers, and platform teams to embed security into AI applications, LLM-powered features, APIs, agentic workflows, and cloud platforms. What You'll Do
  • Design and implement security controls for AI applications, agents, and LLM-powered products.
  • Perform threat modelling for AI systems, including prompt injection, data leakage, tool misuse, jailbreaks, and excessive agent permissions.
  • Secure RAG platforms, enterprise knowledge systems, and AI data flows.
  • Define controls for authentication, authorisation, tenant isolation, secrets management, and API security.
  • Build reusable security guardrails, templates, policy-as-code controls, and developer tooling.
  • Partner with engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, and release processes.
  • Lead vulnerability management across AI applications, APIs, containers, model-serving platforms, and supporting infrastructure.
  • + years in Security Engineering, Application Security, Cloud Security, or Platform Security.
  • Strong understanding of application security, API security, threat modelling, and secure software development.
  • Knowledge of AI security risks including prompt injection, model abuse, insecure tool usage, and data leakage.
  • Strong knowledge of OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, ABAC, secrets management, and identity security.
  • Programming experience in Python, Go, or similar languages.
  • Nice to Have
  • Knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or OWASP frameworks.