AI Security & Controls Lead

Role Description

The AI Enablement & Governance – Security & Controls Lead enables secure, responsible, and scalable AI adoption by defining, implementing, and evaluating AI‑specific security and risk controls across the AI lifecycle. This role serves as a bridge between AI engineering, information security, privacy, and third‑party risk teams, ensuring that incremental AI risks introduced by models, training data, RAG architectures, and autonomous or semi‑autonomous agents are appropriately controlled by design.

The role partners closely with AI Engineering, Third‑Party Supplier Governance, Information Security, Privacy, and Risk teams to identify AI‑specific control gaps, define practical control requirements, support secure implementation, and evaluate effectiveness. The focus is on AI‑specific security concerns—not replacing existing security programs, but extending them thoughtfully for AI.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Security, Policy, Standards & Guidance
  • Partnering directly with AI Engineers & Developers, Information Security and governance teams to define AI-specific security and risk management standards covering AI/ML models, RAG solutions, and agentic architectures.
  • Translating enterprise security principles and risk frameworks into AI‑appropriate guidance, addressing topics such as model access control and abuse prevention, prompt and context security, data leakage, memorization, and inference risks, agent autonomy boundaries and safeguards.
  • Define AI runtime monitoring and incident response expectations, aligned to (and extending as needed) existing incident response playbooks.
  • Ensuring AI security guidance remains aligned with evolving technology patterns, external expectations, and internal architectures, and external expectations (e.g. NIST AI RMF/CSF, NYDFS AI Cybersecurity, ISO/IEC 42001).
  • Contributing to the broader AI policy hierarchy by ensuring security requirements are clearly mapped to AI governance policies, controls and standards.
• Third‑Party AI & Model Risk Support
  • Partnering with third‑party risk and supplier governance teams to identify AI‑specific risks introduced by vendors, models, platforms, and APIs.
  • Defining AI security control expectations for vendors and managed services.
  • Supporting evaluation of vendor AI security posture, including training data handling, model protections, monitoring, and incident response capabilities.
  • Contributing AI‑specific input to due diligence, onboarding, and ongoing vendor risk assessments.
• Cross‑Functional Enablement & Advisory Support
  • Acting as a trusted advisor to AI engineering, product, privacy, and security teams on how to safely design and deploy AI systems.
  • Providing practical guidance that balances security rigor with business velocity.
  • Helping teams understand what “secure by design” means for AI, without imposing unnecessary friction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience (or equivalent expertise) in information security, technology risk, AI governance, model risk management, privacy engineering, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of AI architectures, Machine learning pipelines, Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), Agentic and tool‑using AI patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical AI and security concepts into clear control expectations and guidance.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with engineering, security, privacy, and risk teams.
• Practical, risk‑based mindset with strong judgment and attention to detail.
• Excellent written communication skills; ability to create clear, defensible documentation.
• Relevant certifications preferred (e.g., AAISM, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, AIGP, cloud security certifications).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Requirements

• Background check consistent with Alight’s employment policies.
• Virtual interviews to be conducted on video; Alight is a camera-on culture.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package supporting mind, body, wallet, and life.
• Health, dental, and vision coverages starting Day One.
• Wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching.
• Generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements.