AI Security Engineer - Quant

Selby Jennings Shanghai, China

Posted 7 days ago Hybrid Job Permanent Negotiable

What You Will Do

Requirements Review & Security Design: Lead security reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing for AI Agents. Design and implement defense mechanisms against emerging threats, including tool abuse, context contamination, data poisoning, and prompt injection.
Automated Security Tooling: Design and develop AI-powered automated security detection tools. Utilize Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques to enhance threat detection, anomalous behavior analysis, and vulnerability discovery efficiency.
Security Operations & Auditing: Participate in building Agent behavior auditing and anomaly detection systems to identify runtime malicious behavior chains. Help construct an AI-driven Security Operations platform to automate alert triage, attack attribution, and incident response strategy generation.
Security Guardrails Implementation: Co-design and implement Agent security guardrails, including input filtering, output sanitization, tool call permission controls, and sandbox isolation.
Frontier Research & Adversarial Defense: Track and research cutting-edge security threats in the AI/Agent ecosystem (e.g., prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, supply chain attacks). Explore, design, and deploy robust defense solutions tailored to real-world business scenarios.

Who You Are

Experience: Minimum of 3 years of experience in security development or penetration testing, with at least 1 year dedicated to LLM/AI security offense and defense. Proven Red Teaming or real-world adversarial experience is highly preferred.
Frameworks & Frameworks: Deep familiarity with security frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLM and MITRE ATT&CK. Strong understanding of common AI attack vectors, adversarial logic, and mitigation strategies, paired with a strong passion for AI security.
Domain Knowledge: Familiarity with the entire AI product lifecycle (design, development, deployment, and operations). Understanding of cloud-native threat detection and standard infrastructure security. Prior experience in Web3 security and defense is a strong plus.
Technical Skills: Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go, C++). Capable of building custom security tools from scratch or heavily customizing/extending open-source security platforms.
Soft Skills: Exceptional communication, collaboration, and project management skills. A self-starter with strong continuous learning capabilities, able to own projects independently and convert bleeding-edge research into practical production defenses.

Job ID PR/608919

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Selby Jennings

New York, United States

1000 Employees HR & Recruitment

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