Associate Director, Security Architect

• Shape security for next-gen AI products at scale.
• Equity in a high-growth, mission-driven AI company.
• Flexible, remote-first culture with global impact.
• Work alongside world-class AI researchers, data scientists, and platform engineers .
• Lead secure innovation that powers trust in AI.

• Security Architecture & Governance : Design multi-cloud security architectures (AWS, GCP, Azure), covering IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, and cloud-native application protection.
• AI/ML Pipeline Security : Secure AI/ML systems, addressing model theft, poisoning, and inference attacks, while implementing defenses and guardrails.
• Data Security & Privacy : Safeguard data ecosystems using encryption, tokenization, and differential privacy, ensuring compliance with Security, and AI regulations.
• Secure SDLC Leadership : Integrate security tools into CI/CD pipelines, define secure SDLC gates, and lead threat modeling workshops.
• Influence & Enablement : Align stakeholders on risk trade-offs, mentor engineers on secure coding practices, and represent security in architecture reviews.

• 8-10+ years of hands-on security architecture or engineering experience in cloud-native environments.
• ISC2 CISSP with a concentration in ISSAP, ISSEP, CCSP, or CSSLP preferred.
• Deep expertise in multi-cloud security, zero-trust architectures, and infrastructure-as-code security.
• Proficiency in for automation and policy enforcement.
• Proven ability to author production-grade reference architectures adopted organization-wide.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with NIST AI RMF and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs .

• Architect & enabler : You design systems that are secure and fast to build.
• Collaborative influencer : You earn trust with engineers, not mandates.
• Hands-on coder : You write IaC, scripts, and policiesnot just diagrams.
• AI-aware : You understand prompt flows, embeddings, and model supply chains.
• Pragmatic : You balance risk, compliance, and velocity.