Senior AI Security Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• At least 7 years experience within Information Security, ideally with a hands-on background in Application Security or Infrastructure Security.
• Strong understanding of core security principles, controls and architectures.
• Proven experience in threat modelling.
• Proven experience in secure system design.
• Proven experience embedding security within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Exposure to AI and agentic systems, either through practical implementation or conceptual design.
• Experience with security and governance for AI solutions, including identity, observability and risk management.
• Experience with agentic architectures and patterns such as MCP, RAG, Tools, Memory and Harnesses.
• Experience working within complex, enterprise-scale environments.
• Ability to translate security requirements into practical, engineering-aligned solutions.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, testing and deploying security solutions that automate complex processes.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop security solutions for AI-driven and agentic systems.
• Conduct traditional and AI-specific threat modelling and risk assessments.
• Support the embedding of security controls throughout the end-to-end agentic SDLC, including design, testing, release and governance.
• Develop reusable security patterns, frameworks and standards for engineering teams.
• Support secure go-to-market processes for new products, services and capabilities.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure successful implementation and operational handover of security solutions.
• Validate security hypotheses through the hands-on development and testing of Proofs of Concept (POCs) and pilot solutions.
• Support the scoping, build and industrialisation of AI-enabled Information Security initiatives across the organisation.
• Work closely with the Principal InfoSec AI Architect and wider Information Security Architecture team to ensure solutions align with strategic objectives and architectural standards.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Support
• MCP
• RAG
• Security

More:

We are hiring a Senior AI Security Engineer for a 6-month contract in London on a hybrid basis. The day rate is £600 - £650 inside IR35. You will play a critical role in designing and embedding security controls across AI-driven and agentic systems, helping shape our reimagined Information Security vision. We work closely with stakeholders across the wider Information Security organisation, including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd lines of defence, to deliver agentic security solutions that support our target operating model and future security strategy. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from us, please contact us via the ManpowerGroup website.

last updated 38 week of 2026