AI Information Security Engineer

Who is Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. Over 40000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500 50 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work

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Your Role:

As an AI Security Engineer on Tenables Information Security team you will help shape and mature our approach to securing AI both within Tenables products and across the enterprise. AI introduces a new class of risk at the intersection of application security cloud risk and data governance and you will be on the front lines of defining how we assess test and address it.

You will apply hands-on AI engineering experience alongside product security and application security skills to design security controls for AI systems lead assessments and help engineering teams ship AI features securely. You will establish security standards for responsible AI use influence decisions across the organization and build tooling that raises our security posture.

This role is ideal for a practitioner who has spent time building or tinkering with AI systems looking under the hood of model internals and wants to channel that experience into a security specialty.

Your Opportunity:

• Design implement and maintain end-to-end security controls across the AI/ML lifecycle.
• Assist in the implementation of robust security guardrails controls and boundary mechanisms for Large Language Models (LLMs) Small Language Models (SLMs) and open-source models.
• Continuously monitor the AI landscape for novel vulnerabilities and attack techniques applying deep engineering experience to proactively defend enterprise AI deployments.
• Assist in developing security reference architectures for AI deployment patterns including MCP servers and agentic AI workflows and harnesses.
• Deploy controls to ensure model integrity governance and proper access control across models and feature stores.
• Build AI-driven tooling to strengthen cybersecurity posture across identity incident management vulnerability management third-party risk and emerging AI threat vectors.
• Perform AI safety security assessments threat modeling for AI/ML systems identifying risks such as data poisoning model evasion model extraction adversarial inputs and integrity attacks.
• Collaborate with software engineers and product teams to integrate security best practices into AI development training validation and deployment processes.
• Create security guidance documentation and training for internal engineering and development teams; develop metrics that drive desired security behaviors and outcomes.
• Assist in researching emerging trends in AI security and contribute to innovative solutions that support Tenables AI initiatives.

What Youll Need:

• 2 or more years of professional experience in information security or application security with at least a demonstrated interest on securing AI/ML systems.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Science or a related field preferred.
• Awareness of AI-specific security threats including adversarial ML data poisoning prompt injection model inversion model evasion and inference attacks.
• Knowledge of data security principles including encryption masking and tokenization.
• Knowledge of SSDLC DevSecOps and security testing practices including SAST DAST SCA and threat modeling.
• Knowledge of application security architecture best practices and patterns including modern web applications Docker and microservices.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across engineering product and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly translate complex AI security risks for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving skills attention to detail and ability to lead projects with end-to-end ownership.
• Self-motivated and effective working independently and across distributed teams.

And Ideally:

• Hands-on experience with AI red teaming adversarial prompt testing or LLM security assessments.
• Basic coding experience in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with frameworks & libraries such as PyTorch Hugging Face Transformers TensorFlow or similar.
• Strong understanding of the ML/AI lifecycle and the security risks associated with each stage.
• Experience with application security assessment tools (Burp Suite ZAP Tenable WAS etc.)
• Knowledge of cloud security platforms: AWS Azure or GCP including AI/ML-related services.
• Security certifications: CISSP CSSLP SANS GIAC CEH or AI-focused security certifications are a plus but not necessary.

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This is the base pay range for this position. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors including the candidates qualifications skills competencies location and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Employees are also eligible for variable compensation in addition to base pay (commission for sales roles bonus for non-sales roles) depending on company and individual performance. Tenable also offers a variety of comprehensive and competitive benefits which include: medical dental vision disability and life insurance; 401(k) retirement savings with company match; an employee stock purchase plan; an employee referral program; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program (EAP); education assistance; parental leave; paid time off (PTO); company-paid holidays; health and wellness events; and community programs.

US Pay Range

$102500 - $136500 USD

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