Lead Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Irving, TX, United States; hybrid work with 3 days per week in the Irving office; in-person interview required

Salary: $102,400–$179,000 per year, plus incentive eligibility

Company

hirify.global provides an enterprise environment focused on technology, organizational capability, and professional development.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary security engineering partner for the VIP program across discovery, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Review application, API, cloud, infrastructure, and AI architectures; conduct threat modeling, risk assessments, and security design reviews.
• Secure AI-enabled applications involving LLMs, autonomous AI agents, RAG, and enterprise system integrations.
• Guide secure software development, vulnerability remediation, dependency management, secrets management, API security, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and infrastructure as code.
• Evaluate cloud identity, access management, network segmentation, encryption, container, automation, and secure configuration controls.
• Develop security standards, reference architectures, guardrails, remediation guidance, and risk documentation while partnering with security, engineering, architecture, infrastructure, and GRC teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in information security engineering, application security, cloud security, or related technical security disciplines.
• Experience working with software engineering and architecture teams to implement security requirements.
• Strong understanding of secure software development, application security vulnerabilities, common attack techniques, and vulnerability management.
• Experience with security architecture reviews, threat modeling, technical security risk assessments, and security assessment remediation.
• Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization, identity management, encryption, secrets management, and API security.
• Experience securing cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps practices, and infrastructure as code.
• Understanding of modern AI architectures and security risks, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG, and enterprise AI integrations.
• Ability to develop technical security standards, reference architectures, implementation guidance, analyze problems, communicate technical concepts, work independently, and influence decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• PowerShell, Python, Okta, Entra ID, Splunk, and SIEM experience.
• Ability to review and read code.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment supporting employee engagement, authentic self-expression, and contribution of individual skills.
• Opportunities for personal and professional development.
• Comprehensive benefits plan.
• Full-time employment with hybrid office attendance requirements.

Hiring process

• An in-person interview is required.