Senior Artificial Intelligence Security Engineer

Sr. AI Security Engineer

The Digital Threat Management (DTM) team is looking for a Sr. AI Security Engineer to lead the establishment, maturation, and oversight of a unified framework for AI security. This role will directly influence enterprise strategy, regulatory exam readiness, risk reduction, and overall data trust. In addition, you will lead, execute, and provide data security roadmap drawing upon cross‑functional partnerships to deliver AI and data security posture reviews on a repeatable basis and review new systems as they are developed.

• Lead the enterprise AI Security program, defining policies, standards, and best practices.
• Adopt and operationalize tools that provide visibility and control over AI access and behaviors.
• Defend against prompt injection, jail breaking, and indirect prompt injection.
• Advise on methods to filter and guardrail models to prevent the generation of toxic or restricted content.
• Implement methods to reduce the risk of data loss through AI.
• Introduce AI security control points into the CI/CD pipeline, including securing internal codebases and the use of third‑party dependencies.
• Assist in the formation of the AI Center of Excellence.
• Assess, build, configure and deploy solutions to detect and react to anomalous model behavior.
• Provide insight into how best to position security operations to detect and respond to AI‑specific breaches.
• Contribute to general security architecture and engineering duties undertaken by the DTM team.
• Oversee data quality, metadata management, and issue remediation functions to improve data integrity and trust.
• Lead enterprise‑wide risk assessments relating to data management, protection, and quality.
• Provide strategic leadership on data‑driven transformation initiatives, ensuring governance is built into system modernization, cloud adoption, and digital initiatives.

• 5+ years of experience in Cyber Security; strong command of security and security architecture concepts.
• Deep understanding of AI and its relevance to security.
• Proficiency with AI/ML frameworks and services such as Lang Chain, PyTorch, AWS Bedrock / Sage Maker, Google Vertex AI.
• Experience with AI security frameworks: NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, Google SAIF, OWASP Top  for LLM Applications.
• Familiarity with security tools: DSPM, SAST, SCA, DAST, SSPM, NHI Security.
• Development experience in Python and general AI development work.
• Cloud security experience with AWS and GCP.
• Relevant certifications are a plus.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 100% coverage for out‑patient in‑network mental health services.
• Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants.
• Well‑being reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and more (up to $720/year).
• Student loan repayment assistance and tuition reimbursement.
• 401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of your contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution.
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) for exempt employees.
• 3‑weeks PTO for non‑exempt employees.
• 2‑weeks paid winter break.
• 10 company holidays (including Juneteenth and Well‑being Day).
• Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day).
• Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent.

Disclaimer:
This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.

Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are an E‑Verify employer in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Utah. Please note UMG is not enrolled in E‑Verify in California and New York, and cannot support employment of candidates whose employer must enroll in E‑Verify, for example candidates on STEM‑OPT.