Principal AI Offensive Security Engineer

Ally and Your Career

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From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule:

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At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people.

We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog h. We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Principal AI Offensive Security Engineer to join the Offensive Security team  a Principal AI Offensive Security Engineer, you will perform penetration tests on AI and use AI to perform penetration tests.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including cybersecurity analysts, engineers, and stakeholders, to enhance the organization's security posture. At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

• Pen test AI, LLM-powered systems, machine learning platforms, APIs, and cloud environments.
• Develop custom tools and scripts to automate the testing of AI and automate pen testing in general.
• Assess security controls surrounding retrieval-augmented generation, agentic workflows, tool integrations, etc.
• Work with cross-functional teams to report identified vulnerabilities.
• Produce professional grade reports based on the penetration tests you perform.
• Conduct scoping calls with internal clients to determine penetration test needs.
• Training junior engineers may be required.
• Potential of travel up to two times a year.

The Skills You Bring

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in cyber security.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in offensive security.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in offensive security with an AI focus.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

• Relevant certifications or ability to obtain within a year: OSCP, OSEP, OSAI, CRTO, CRTL, CPTS, CAPE, COAE, etc.
• Experience performing adversary emulations.
• Experience working with financial institutions.
• Experience performing physical penetration tests.
• Experience performing social engineering with AI.
• Experience with PoC development or having CVEs published.

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to…