
Security Operations AI Engineer, Contract
66degrees • Remote, United States
No Relocation
Posted: September 23, 2026
Job Description
Overview of Role
In this role, you will manage multiple aspects of AI information security operations, response, and engineering with a specialized focus on securing AI/ML systems and infrastructure. This position will contribute to a team focusing on incident response, playbook development and execution, operational engineering, AI governance, tooling maintenance, and serving as a key participant in Information Security and AI governance programs. You will work in close collaboration with all IT and AI/ML teams to design and support effective Information Security Operations for International, with emphasis on emerging AI threats and generative AI security.
Responsibilities
- Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects.
- Contribute to the Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of the client's mission critical suite of applications.
- Available 24/7 for any critical security incident response that may arise which requires immediate resolution.
- Work to ensure security tooling within environments is operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability.
- Ensure operational practices provide a sound foundation that utilizes tools and processes for rapid identification of security events to address and mitigate risks.
- Assist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion.
- Contribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards.
- Develop and maintain incident response playbooks specific to AI/ML security threats including prompt injection, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks.
- Monitor and secure generative AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications within environments.
- Contribute to AI governance frameworks and policies ensuring responsible AI practices and compliance with AI-specific security standards.
- Analyze and evaluate security implications of new AI/ML tools and platforms before deployment to production environments.
- Participate in AI threat intelligence activities and stay current with emerging AI security vulnerabilities and attack methodologies.
- Conduct post-incident analysis for AI-related security events and develop preventive measures specific to AI threat vectors.
- Review and validate AI model security properties, including robustness against adversarial inputs and data privacy protections.
Qualifications
- Manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects.
- Contribute to Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of mission critical suite of applications.
- Serve as a key engineering contributor for AI operations, building and maintaining the tooling, pipelines, and telemetry that support secure deployment of AI/ML systems.
- Work to ensure security tooling within environments is operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability.
- Engineer operational practices, tooling, and detection pipelines that provide a sound foundation for identifying and addressing AI/ML security events.
- Contribute to “Continuous Improvement and Posture Management” efforts, in respect to information security tooling, response playbooks, and systems.
- Assist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion.
- Contribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards.
- Engineer detection logic and playbooks specific to AI/ML security threats including prompt injection, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks.
- Monitor and secure generative AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications within environments.
- Contribute to AI governance frameworks and policies ensuring responsible AI practices and compliance with AI-specific security standards.
- Analyze and evaluate security implications of new AI/ML tools and platforms before deployment to production environments.
- Participate in AI threat intelligence activities and stay current with emerging AI security vulnerabilities and attack methodologies.
- Assist in configuration of AI/ML system telemetry and logging for comprehensive security event detection and forensic analysis.
- Review and validate AI model security properties, including robustness against adversarial inputs and data privacy protections.