Forward Deployed AI Security Lead

Overview

We are a collaborative and respectful organization. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the worlds most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream.

Do. Grow. with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world changing company delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the worlds most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We're looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.

with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world changing company – delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Location:

Plano, Texas

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, 'job flexibility benefits' (also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability), etc.

now or in the future). You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

• Embed directly with security team leads across multiple functions to deeply understand their workflows, tools, and pain points
• Lead discovery sessions to identify high-value automation opportunities - translating security operations problems into AI-solvable technical specifications
• Own the structured intake process: prioritize requests by cross-team impact and risk reduction value, communicate capacity and timelines transparently
• Design and build multi-agent architectures using managed AI services - autonomous triage agents, cross-source correlation agents, and team-specific specialist agents
• Implement RAG systems over a centralized security data lake for natural language threat hunting and investigation
• Build prompt engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that continuously improve agent accuracy
• Design a model routing layer that directs each task to the optimal model based on complexity, latency, and cost
• Implement centralized token usage monitoring and cost controls for leadership visibility
• Own agent observability: monitoring for drift, hallucination detection, accuracy degradation, and failure mode identification
• Architect human-in-the-loop controls and guardrails ensuring agents operate safely within defined boundaries
• Design and build API connectors to enterprise security tools (EDR/XDR, cloud security, API security, identity, vulnerability management)
• Architect the cross-source correlation engine that links findings across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network data
• Define and evolve the data lake schema and ingestion pipelines for security telemetry
• Build and maintain dashboards serving multiple security teams with team-specific views
• Set engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns as the team grows
• Serve as the trusted technical advisor to security leadership - translating complex AI/ML capabilities into clear, actionable security outcomes

• 5+ years building production systems, with strong Python and Type Script fluency
• 1+ years hands-on experience with LLMs in production or near-production contexts - prompt engineering, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, or fine-tuning
• Hands-on experience with security tool APIs - particularly EDR/XDR platforms
• Strong AWS foundation: S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC, and familiarity with managed LLM services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock)
• Understanding of security operations workflows - alert triage, investigation chains, incident response, threat intelligence correlation
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with non-engineering stakeholders: translating business/operational problems into technical solutions, managing expectations, and delivering…