AI Security Engineer

Job Description

At Cetera, our Information Security organization protects employees, advisors, and clients from evolving cyber threats across cloud, SaaS, and emerging AI-enabled technologies. As artificial intelligence capabilities expand across the enterprise, Cetera is investing in secure AI adoption, governance, and risk mitigation to ensure innovation aligns with regulatory and security expectations.
We are seeking a skilled security engineer with a strong cloud and application security background to lead and support the secure design, deployment, and governance of AI-driven systems. This role will serve as a key bridge across IT Risk, Cloud Security, Cloud Engineering, and Application Development teams, ensuring AI and cloud services are implemented securely within a regulated financial environment.


What will you do:
• Identify, assess, and mitigate security risks associated with AI/ML systems
• Implement controls aligned to OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF
• Perform threat modeling for AI-enabled applications
• Propose and validate technical guardrails to prevent unauthorized AI actions and support secure AI development
• Identify and assess risk from unsanctioned AI tool usage across the enterprise
• Evaluate third-party AI tools for risk and compliance
• Design and secure cloud-based AI workloads
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines
• Partner with IT Risk, Cloud Security, and Engineering teams
• Support incident response for AI and cloud-related threats
• Develop security standards, runbooks, and architecture documentation
• Support audits and regulatory compliance activities

What you will have:
• 5+ years of experience in cloud security, application security, or a combination of both
• Hands-on experience securing cloud-native infrastructure and applications
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and the ability to apply security principles to AI-enabled systems
• Familiarity with OWASP (including Top 10 for LLMs) and NIST frameworks (including AI RMF)
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services or FINRA preferred)
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with AWS Bedrock or other AI/ML platforms
• Certifications such as AWS Security Specialty, AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional, CISSP, or CCSP
• Experience with SAST/DAST tools
• Exposure to AI governance and risk frameworks
• Familiarity with AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, model poisoning, and data exfiltration

About Us

About Us

What we give you in return:

Not many teams can say that they support people's dreams coming to life. We happen to do that every day. And as important as we know your career is, we recognize that there's a whole lot more to life. To ensure that our employees can make the most of their time outside of working hours, we offer a competitive salary and for full-time roles, a benefits package including:

• Inclusive health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans built to support diverse lifestyles, offer preventative care, and protect against hardship.
• Easy access to mental health benefits to meet our team members and their families where they are.
• 20+ days of paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and 2 paid wellness days to give our employees the time they need to stay close with their loved ones, recharge, and give back to their communities.
• 401(k) savings plan with a generous company contribution (up to 5%), and access to a financial professional to offer our employees the opportunity to plan-ahead for a strong financial future well beyond their working years.
• Paid parental leave to support all team members with birth, adoption, and fostering.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account options to help you save money on healthcare, daycare, commuting, and more.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), LifeLock, Pet Insurance and more.
• Paid caregiver leave to provide time away from work when caring for an ill or recovering family member.
• Additional benefits such as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), identity theft protection (LifeLock), pet insurance, and other voluntary benefits to provide extra peace of mind

About Cetera

Cetera Financial Group® (Cetera) is a leading network of independent retail broker-dealers and registered investment advisers empowering the delivery of objective financial advice to individuals, families, and company retirement plans across the country through trusted financial advisors and financial institutions. Cetera is one of the largest independent financial advisor networks in the nation and a leading provider of retail services to the investment programs of banks and credit unions.

Advisor support resources offered through Cetera include award-winning wealth management and advisory platforms, comprehensive broker-dealer and registered investment adviser services, practice management support, and innovative technology.

Cetera Financial Group (Cetera) is a network of independent retail firms, including those that are members of FINRA/SIPC: Cetera Advisors LLC; Cetera Wealth Services, LLC (formerly known as Cetera Advisor Networks); Cetera Investment Services LLC (marketed as Cetera Financial Institutions or Cetera Investors); and Cetera Financial Specialists LLC. Entities registered as investment advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission include Cetera Investment Management LLC and Cetera Investment Advisers LLC. Cetera's principal office is located at 655 W. Broadway, 11th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101. Avantax Planning Partners, Inc. is an SEC registered investment adviser within the Aretec Group, Inc. (dba Cetera Holdings, an affiliate of Cetera). All the referenced entities are under common ownership.

Cetera Financial Group is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. For us, this is the only acceptable way to do business. Accordingly, all employment decisions at Cetera Financial Group, including those relating to hiring, promotion, transfers, benefits, compensation, and placement, will be made without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic characteristics, religion, religious dress and/or grooming, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, U.S. military status, political affiliation, or any other class protected by state and/or federal law.

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