Amazon · 1 day ago
Security Engineer, Artificial General Intelligence
Austin, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $213K/yr
3+ years expAmazon is focused on building world-class general-purpose intelligence services, and they are seeking a Security Engineer within the AGI Security team. The role involves ensuring that AGI large language models and applications are designed with high security standards and tackling diverse security challenges in Generative AI.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and implement automated security guardrails and paved roads that enable secure-by-default practices across AGI models and applications; transform manual processes into scalable controls
Conduct application security reviews, threat modeling sessions, and penetration testing to identify and remediate security risks early in the development lifecycle
Partner with development teams to embed security controls into their applications, providing technical guidance on complex architectural decisions
Create and maintain security documentation, including designs patterns, implementation guides, and secure software development kits (SDKs)
Identify security risks and drive continuous improvement in security controls and practices
Qualification
Required
3+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
Preferred
5+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
Experience with AWS products and services
Experience identifying common Generative AI vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, training data poisoning, and model inversion
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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$8.11BKey Investors
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