Senior AI Security & Adversarial Testing Engineer

Req ID: 393749

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We are currently seeking a Senior AI Security & Adversarial Testing Engineer to join our team in hyderabad, Telangana (IN-TG), India (IN).

Job Profile: Senior AI Security & Adversarial Testing Engineer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Security & Adversarial Testing Engineer to assess, secure, and enhance the resilience of AI/LLM-based applications and platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AI security, adversarial testing, red teaming, threat modelling, secure software development, and AI risk management. This role will be responsible for identifying vulnerabilities, validating security controls, conducting security assessments, and ensuring AI systems comply with industry security and governance standards.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Conduct AI/LLM security assessments, threat modeling, and vulnerability identification across AI applications and platforms.
2. Perform adversarial testing, red teaming, jailbreak assessments, and prompt injection testing to evaluate AI system robustness.
3. Design and execute automated security testing frameworks using Python and industry-standard tooling.
4. Establish and implement secure development practices aligned with Secure SDLC methodologies.
5. Develop and execute AI evaluation and benchmarking frameworks to measure model security, safety, and reliability.
6. Assess AI solutions against OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, and other applicable security standards and frameworks.
7. Perform risk assessments and support governance, compliance, and security reporting activities.
8. Evaluate the security of Agentic AI systems, tools, plugins, APIs, and MCP-based integrations.
9. Conduct multi-modal security testing across text, image, audio, and document-based AI models.
10. Collaborate with engineering, security, governance, and AI teams to identify and remediate security risks.
11. Support AI model risk management initiatives and contribute to AI safety and security best practices.
12. Monitor emerging AI threats, attack techniques, and adversarial research to strengthen organizational AI security posture.

Primary Skills:

1. AI/LLM Security & Threat Modelling
2. Adversarial Testing, Red Teaming & Jailbreak Assessments
3. Cyber Security Engineering & Secure SDLC
4. Python Development & Test Automation
5. AI Evaluation Frameworks & Benchmarking
6. OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF & Security Standards
7. Risk Assessment, Governance & Compliance Reporting
8. Agentic AI Security & Tool/MCP Security Testing

Secondary Skills:

1. PyRIT, DeepEval, OpenAI Evals and Similar Frameworks
2. Arize Phoenix & LLM Observability Platforms
3. LLM-as-a-Judge Methodologies
4. Multi-modal Testing (Text, Image, Audio, PDF)
5. Secure Sandbox & Isolated Execution Environments
6. Cyber Attack Simulation Platforms
7. AI Model Risk Management Practices
8. Frontier Model Evaluation & Safety Research

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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