Secure AI Engineer

Secure AI Engineer

Job Number: R0251435

Location: Washington, DC, US

Work Model: Hybrid

The Opportunity

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your knowledge and technical skills to help organizations adopt artificial intelligence (AI) securely and responsibly? As a Secure AI Engineer, you'll combine your skills in AI engineering, cybersecurity, and offensive security to assess, harden, and improve AI-enabled systems. You'll have the chance to build your skills and solve real-world challenges in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with clients to design secure AI architectures, evaluate AI system resilience, identify vulnerabilities, and implement mitigations that enable safe deployment of generative AI and autonomous AI capabilities
• Advise clients on the secure design, deployment, and governance of AI systems and generative AI applications
• Conduct AI red team assessments against large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, AI agents, and multi-agent workflows
• Identify and demonstrate AI-specific attack vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, indirect prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, extraction, and other adversarial techniques
• Develop recommendations and technical mitigations to improve AI system security, resilience, and trustworthiness
• Build, test, and evaluate agentic AI systems using modern orchestration frameworks and assess their security posture
• Design security testing methodologies, automation, and tooling for AI applications throughout the development lifecycle
• Adapt and extend open-source AI frameworks, security tools, and evaluation platforms to meet client-specific requirements
• Stay current with emerging AI threats, vulnerabilities, research, and industry best practices

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, or evaluating AI/ML systems
• 3+ years of experience developing applications using LLMs and modern AI frameworks
• Experience with red teaming AI systems, Adversarial AI, or AI Governance
• Knowledge of AI security principles, secure AI development practices, AI attack techniques, and AI risk management
• Bachelor's degree

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with AI red teaming frameworks such as Microsoft's PyRIT, Garak, Inspect AI, OWASP GenAI tools, or similar platforms
• Working with open-source software and modifying or extending existing frameworks to meet new use cases
• Experience performing security assessments, penetration testing, or offensive security activities
• Experience with agent orchestration frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, OpenAI Agents SDK, or similar technologies
• Experience implementing security controls for RAG systems, vector databases, AI gateways, and model-serving infrastructure
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects
• Knowledge of AI security guidance and frameworks, including the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, NIST AI Risk Management Framework (RMF), MITRE ATLAS, and emerging AI security standards
• Knowledge of adversarial machine learning concepts
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Cybersecurity, or Engineering
• CISSP, OSCP, Security+, GIAC, or Cloud Security Certifications

Compensation and Benefits

Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual's particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD).

Booz Allen offers health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. A recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Work Model Details

• Hybrid: You will be expected to work from a Booz Allen or customer facility, in alignment with your leadership's expectations and the needs of the role. There may still be occasions when you are required to work in person at a Booz Allen or customer facility.
• Our people-first culture prioritizes the benefits of collaboration. To support engagement and effective communication, employees working virtually are generally expected to have their cameras on during meetings.

Application Process

This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.

As part of the hiring process, you will be asked to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. Booz Allen reserves the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

AI is a part of our daily work at Booz Allen, and we are committed to the responsible and ethical use of AI tools. However, we want to ensure a fair candidate process based on your own skills and knowledge. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) or other tools to assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided.

About Booz Allen

Booz Allen is an advanced technology company. We build commercial-grade products and solutions for America's most critical defense, civil, and national security priorities.

Equal Opportunity and Accommodations

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

Applicants who need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application, hiring, or employment process because of a disability, a sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance, or as otherwise required by applicable law should contact the Booz Allen Help Desk by calling 1-877-927-8278 or sending an email to helpdesk@bah.com. We will review requests on an individualized basis and provide reasonable accommodations consistent with applicable law.