Principal AI Security Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-18 Cremorne, Victoria, au Full-time Hybrid ICT

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Market rate

A$16,666–A$25,000/mo (A$199,992–A$300,000/yr)

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

About the Company

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed. By joining us, you'll be part of a multi-national technology business that is far-reaching with a start-up working culture that focuses on a set of collaborative values and appreciates dynamic cultures. SEEK is a place where potential meets possibility - it's where your career aspiration and our purpose can make great things happen. We're looking for people who thrive in dynamic teams and enjoy tackling regular new challenges in a large-scale, modern, and agile environment. As one of Asia Pacific's largest tech companies, you'll contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region. Be part of a fast-growing company with a strong culture and clear purpose, innovation and strong investment in responsible AI.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the most senior technical engineer in SEEK's newly formed AI Security team, acting as the technical anchor for our AI Security program
  • Lead the design, build and operation of security capabilities that enable SEEK's engineering and product teams to adopt AI technologies safely and at velocity
  • Set the technical bar for the team, mentor Senior AI Security Engineers, and influence engineering decisions across SEEK
  • Build, integrate and operate SEEK's AI security platform including MCP and LLM security gateways, prompt injection defenses, and AI security testing automation
  • Run AI Security advisory function leading solution, agentic technology and tool security reviews with conditional approvals and practical remediation pathways
  • Deputize for Head of AI Security in cross-functional technical forums making rapid, defensible AI security calls under ambiguity
  • Partner with Architecture function on AI initiatives steering security design and providing specialist advice shaping architecture decisions
  • Lead AI security risk assessments using AI risk frameworks translating risk into actionable guidance covering prompt injection, model exploitation and agentic patterns
  • Drive continuous AI security research translating findings into same-week operational defenses for prompt injection, supply chain attacks and other AI-specific threats

Requirements

  • Combine strong software engineering capability with deep expertise in either AI security or AI/ML engineering, and working command of the adjacent domain
  • Have strong AI/ML literacy, and equally welcome experienced AI/ML, data science, or platform engineers with a demonstrated interest in AI security and a clear commitment to making it their primary discipline going forward
  • Be able to write production-grade Python or Go, analyze complex agentic systems for risks, conduct adversarial testing of LLM-powered applications, and partner with engineering teams to design secure AI architectures

Benefits

  • Be part of a multi-national tech company with strong core values to help solve complex challenges for customers while building a flexible, exciting career
  • Contribute to multi-lingual systems, solving high-impact problems to the benefit of millions of people within the region
  • Have access to workshops, conferences and courses while working alongside seasoned experts
  • Expect a great investment in your career development