AI Security Engineer

Role Description

EMCOR Group, Inc. seeks an AI Security Engineer who will be responsible for securing the organization’s artificial intelligence capabilities—including GenAI systems, ML pipelines, model hosting, AI integrations, and AI-enabled business processes—through a combination of security architecture, governance, risk management, and hands-on engineering. This role designs and implements security controls to reduce risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, model exfiltration, supply-chain compromise, unauthorized use, and AI-driven abuse, while enabling safe adoption across the enterprise.

• Adopt and maintain the Enterprise AI Security Reference Architecture
• Establish security patterns and guardrails for AI use cases including approved data sources, allowed tools, etc.
• Conduct threat modeling for AI systems and integrations and translate threats into technical controls
• Operationalize AI governance with EMCOR Legal and Risk
• Work with EMCOR Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) to maintain the AI risk assessment process
• Implement and maintain controls to prevent data leakage and sensitive information exposure in AI prompts, outputs, logs, and training sets
• Work with EMCOR Security Identity and Access Management (IAM) and GRC to deploy and tune protections like DLP, data classification, prompt and response filtering, RAG hardening and model endpoint security
• Integrate and maintain AI security testing capabilities such as prompt injection, model behavior evaluations, adversarial testing, etc.
• Work with EMCOR Security Operations to define and implement logging and monitoring requirements, create detection use cases, and playbooks for AI related incidents
• Assist with AI vendor and cloud services assessments

Qualifications

• Seven years minimum experience in cybersecurity, security engineering and security architecture
• Three years minimum experience securing cloud platforms, APIs, and CI/CD
• Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts
• Experience with security monitoring and detection, and incident response
• CISSP, CCSP, or GIAC or equivalent certification preferred
• Ability to effectively communicate and interact with personnel at all levels
• Must be capable of delivering a very high level of customer service

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Health savings and flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• College Coach and employee assistance program

Compensation

• Compensation Range: $134,000 - $171,000
• This position is bonus eligible