[Hiring] Principal AI Security Engineer @Kyndryl

Role Description

Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities. This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate them into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
• Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
• Implement identity, authorization, secrets, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
• Perform AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
• Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
• Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
• Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.

Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19; however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies. Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in security engineering, application security, product security, cloud security, software engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security, logging, monitoring, and secure development controls.
• Experience implementing technical controls that are unique to the evolving AI risk landscape.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
• Ability to conduct threat modeling and convert findings into working engineering solutions.
• Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, or machine learning platforms.
• Experience with AI gateways, model routing, RAG, vector databases, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
• Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, or automated control validation.
• Relevant security, cloud, application security, or AI engineering certifications.

Benefits

• The base compensation range for the position in the U.S. is $179,760 to $341,520 based on a full-time schedule.
• Compensation may vary depending on multiple factors including geography, relevant job-related skills, education and experience, certification and licenses, internal pay equity, and market and business considerations.
• This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans.
• You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.

Company Description

Kyndryl designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers, and our communities.