Principal Engineer - AI Security
$161,436–$218,415 year
Remote · United States or Minnesota, United States
Job Summary
Principal Engineer - AI Security leads Thrivent’s strategy to defend against AI-powered threats, defining architectures and outcomes for AI threat detection, prevention, and response. Responsibilities include designing enterprise security patterns, integrating AI threat detection into cyber defense tooling, building threat models for generative AI attack patterns, prototyping defensive AI applications, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expert-level knowledge of AI-driven threats, cyber defense, threat modeling, incident response, and the ability to influence security strategy at executive levels.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field
- Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy
- Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering
- Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations
- Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders
- Preferred: Experience working with AI/ML systems and security implications
- Knowledge of adversarial AI techniques and AI threat modeling
- Experience with XDR, SIEM, and detection engineering practices
- Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)
- Financial services industry experience
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