Job Description
DESCRIPTION
The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is focused on building world-class general-purpose intelligence services. Its primary mission involves developing highly autonomous systems through novel model architectures, learning, and inference strategies. The team works on creating a family of new Generative AI models and applications that are efficient and capable.
As a Security Engineer within the AGI Security team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that AGI large language models and applications are designed and executed with the highest security standards to maintain customer trust. You will tackle a diverse array of security challenges, ranging from novel threats in Generative AI to selecting and implementing scalable and secure features such as key management solutions and encrypted storage. You will collaborate with applied scientists, software engineers, security engineers, as well as internal partners and external researchers to develop innovative technologies to solve some of our hardest security problems, and build paved path solutions that builder teams can adopt while building Generative AI models and applications.
Key job responsibilities
1. Identify novel methods to perform adversarial testing on AGI models and applications.
2. Participate in the design and architecture of highly autonomous AGI systems with a focus on security
3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (applied scientists, software engineers, security engineers) to integrate security measures into AGI development processes
4. Contribute to the development of novel model architectures, learning, and inference strategies from a security perspective
5. Contribute to security automation tooling for building new Generative AI detection and tooling capabilities
6. Identify actionable and scalable mitigations for identified vulnerabilities, and collaborate with AGI product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.
7. Mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on experience implementing security measures for AI/ML models and applications
- Familiarity with common attack vectors and vulnerabilities specific to generative AI, such as prompt injection, model inversion, and data poisoning
- Knowledge of cryptography and secure key management practices
- Experience with secure software development practices and DevSecOps
- Familiarity with relevant AI security frameworks and guidelines (e.g., MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Machine Learning Security Top 10)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle novel security challenges in the AI domain
- Excellent communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain complex security concepts
- Continuous learning mindset to stay updated with rapidly evolving AI security landscape
Job Tags
Full time, Flexible hours,