Director, AI Security

Location: Fully remote, based in PA, USA

Base compensation: $179,760–$341,520 annually for U.S. full-time work; ranges vary by location, including up to $409,800 in California (San Francisco Bay Area) and New York City.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, manages, and modernizes mission-critical technology systems and provides cybersecurity and resiliency services.

What you will do

• Build, lead, coach, and develop the AI Security team, including roles, priorities, delivery expectations, and career paths.
• Own the team charter, roadmap, intake model, service catalog, operating rhythm, budget priorities, metrics, and executive reporting.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for enterprise AI security and establish security controls across the AI lifecycle.
• Direct reusable controls for AI applications, runtimes, gateways, orchestration services, and model platforms.
• Oversee AI threat modeling, architecture reviews, adversarial testing, code and agent testing, telemetry, and remediation.
• Partner with cybersecurity, AI platform, governance, architecture, engineering, data, legal, privacy, procurement, and business teams; brief executives on risks, investments, tradeoffs, and decisions.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of experience in cybersecurity, product security, application security, cloud security, platform security, software engineering, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience owning an enterprise security capability, technical program, product, or engineering roadmap.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native architectures, APIs, IAM, secure software development, telemetry, and platform engineering.
• Ability to assess complex architectures and guide practical implementation decisions.
• Strong executive communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, model platforms, or machine learning systems.
• Experience with AI gateways, RAG, vector databases, model routing, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
• Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, agent testing, or automated control validation.
• Relevant security, cloud, engineering leadership, or AI certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work; employment is full time.
• Medical and dental coverage, disability and retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus program, or a sales commission plan where applicable.
• Access to learning programs and certifications from providers including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Skillsoft.
• Inclusive workplace with employee inclusion networks and company-wide volunteering and giving programs.
• Client or partner-site assignments may require proof of COVID-19 vaccination under the applicable site policy; medical or religious accommodations may be available.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
• Employees referred by a hirify.global contact should select “Employee Referral” and provide the contact’s hirify.global email address during the application process.