Associate Director, AI Security Architecture (AI)

Location: Barcelona, Spain; hybrid working. The role is based in Barcelona and relocation support is not available.

Salary: €57,900–€107,500 annual base salary.

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and provides a global corporate environment focused on inclusive, equitable employment and employee wellbeing.

What you will do

• Lead AI architecture activities and develop secure solution architectures across business and technology domains.
• Define standards, best practices, governance frameworks, and reusable patterns for securing AI pipelines, datasets, models, infrastructure, and deployed solutions.
• Assess AI landscapes and mitigate risks across model training, deployment, and operations, including adversarial inputs, prompt injection, jailbreaking, and model poisoning.
• Evaluate AI security technologies and integrate controls across cloud AI platforms, machine learning applications, large language models, and AI gateways.
• Design Model Context Protocol servers, AI agent workflows, secure deployment architectures, and developer-facing security integrations.
• Build Python services, developer tools, automated testing capabilities, and AI security harnesses while collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and DevOps teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of overall professional experience, including substantial experience in security, architecture, software development, and AI security engineering.
• At least 5 years of security experience, 5 years in architecture, 5 years in development, and 2+ years in AI security and engineering.
• Proven AI security architecture expertise covering training data, models, pipelines, deployed AI solutions, security policies, standards, and architecture patterns.
• Strong knowledge of AI threats, risk identification, threat modeling, data privacy, and defenses against adversarial and AI-based attacks.
• Hands-on experience securing artificial intelligence and machine learning applications across cloud platforms, with strong Amazon Web Services engineering and architecture expertise.
• Production experience with AI coding agents, Model Context Protocol servers, agent workflows, Python development, automated testing, and AI gateway integrations.

Nice to have

• Security engineering or application security experience, including work with specialized AI security technologies.
• Experience building developer-facing command-line tools and working in multi-vendor, global technology environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible and hybrid working options where possible.
• Insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources, and global recognition programs.
• Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Performance-based bonus eligibility in addition to base salary.
• Compensation and benefits are subject to country-specific legal requirements and applicable collective bargaining agreements.