AI Engineer II (AI Security)

Location: Remote; San Ramon, CA

Annual salary: $85,000–$124,000, negotiable based on experience and location; eligible for a discretionary annual bonus.

Company

hirify.global provides staffing and professional services and employs teams supporting corporate technology functions.

What you will do

• Design and implement privacy controls for generative AI, including PII/PHI detection, redaction, anonymization, and data minimization.
• Build security guardrails for prompt-injection defense, jailbreak prevention, output filtering, autonomous-agent action scoping, tool restrictions, and human approval.
• Govern, register, approve, lifecycle-manage, and security-review plugins, skills, agents, and third-party tools.
• Define access controls, authentication, least-privilege permissions, data classification, retention, and residency policies across GenAI data flows.
• Monitor AI systems, maintain audit trails and logging, and support GDPR, CCPA, and EU AI Act compliance.
• Provide Level II production support and incident response, including containment, escalation, remediation, and security/privacy governance investigations.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in IT or a related field, including 2+ years of software engineering and 1+ year in AI security, data privacy, or governance.
• Experience with AI coding agent-augmented development, building and securing applications, and privacy techniques such as PII detection, redaction, and anonymization.
• Experience with Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, or SQL.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, SDLC, APIs, system architecture, databases, and data integration; experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Understanding of LLM fundamentals, token behavior, security guardrails, prompt-injection and jailbreak defenses, and governance of plugins, skills, and agents.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, authentication, and least-privilege design.
• Familiarity with NIST AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10, GDPR, CCPA, and the EU AI Act.
• Experience with observability practices, including logging, tracing, and audit trails.
• Strong communication and requirements-gathering skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI governance platforms and policy-as-code frameworks.
• Experience with secrets management, encryption, data loss prevention, LLM red-teaming, adversarial testing, agent tool sandboxing, and action approval.
• Experience with content moderation, output safety filtering, and security incident handling, including containment and forensics.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, vision, dental, FSA, HSA, life, accident, disability, adoption, and fertility benefits.
• Paid parental leave of up to 6 weeks, paid time off, up to 17 days of CTO per calendar year for new hires, and up to 11 paid holidays.
• 401(k) savings and investment plan or deferred compensation plan, with a 100% employer match on the first 3% of eligible contributions.
• Employment offers are contingent on successfully completing a background check.

Hiring process

• Applications may involve recruiter evaluation supported by AI.
• Accommodation requests must specify the accommodation needed and the city and state of the desired position.