
Infosec
AI Staff Security Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £55,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements:- Proven experience in offensive security, including AI Red Teaming and penetration testing against agentic frameworks and LLM integrations.
- Demonstrated ability to engineer or deploy AI Detection and Response (AIDR) workflows using agentic and SIEM technologies, with a strong focus on AI-native threat modeling.
- Understanding of Governance, Risk, and Compliance, specifically managing AI governance policies and enforcing the principle of least privilege for human and AI identities.
- Upper-intermediate English fluency to support clear communication.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to translate technical security data for non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to work aligned with EST/PST time zones to support cross-functional collaboration and incident response.
- A self-directed, passionate mindset with a focus on continuous innovation and modern security solutions.
- Serve as a senior AI Staff Security Engineer and help drive our organization toward a highly proactive security posture.
- Engineer automated workflows that replace manual overhead and improve operational velocity.
- Manage systemic risk from Shadow AI agentic frameworks and enforce least privilege through configuration management.
- Secure our core AI-driven platforms and protect them from advanced threats.
- Enhance the vulnerability management lifecycle by prioritizing AI-centric risks, including supply chain attacks, SBOM tracking, and unpatched legacy infrastructure.
- Design, deploy, and operationalize AI Detection and Response solutions to defend against prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and model extraction.
- Automate critical security workflows using agentic and SIEM integration to enable rapid response to autonomous threats.
- Conduct AI red teaming and penetration testing for generative and agentic systems.
- Develop and deploy AI access governance tools and enforce our review process for all new tools.
- Drive security compliance and AI governance aligned with frameworks such as Googles SAIF and CSAs AICM, with attention to GDPR/PII and ethical AI principles.
- Integrate security checks into the continuous AI development lifecycle, covering testing before and after deployment.
- Present complex security concepts to non-technical audiences to strengthen security awareness and culture across the organization.
- AI
- Support
- LLM
- Security
- CI/CD
More:
We are seeking a versatile and senior AI Staff Security Engineer to serve as the linchpin of our security posture. In this role, we focus on securing our AI-driven platforms, reducing manual security overhead through automation, and defending against emerging AI threats. We value secure-by-design practices, strong governance, and collaboration across teams to protect proprietary models and systems while building a stronger security culture across the organization.
last updated 30 week of 2026
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South East London
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This salary is 17% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
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