Staff AI Security Architect

The role

You will lead threat modeling and security design reviews for LLM-based features and agentic workflows. You will set reference architectures and guardrails for AI development and assess risks of third-party models and AI vendors.

What you will do

• Lead threat modeling and security design reviews for LLM-based features and agentic workflows
• Set reference architectures and guardrails for AI development and adoption
• Assess the risks of third-party models and AI vendors
• Translate evolving AI risk guidance into practical engineering standards
• Advise leaders on tradeoffs
• Explain complex AI risks to technical and executive audiences

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security architecture, application security, or security engineering
• Hands-on experience securing AI/ML or LLM-powered applications
• Deep understanding of AI-specific threats and mitigations including prompt injection, data leakage, model and supply chain risk, insecure tool or plugin use, and excessive agent autonomy
• Proven experience leading threat modeling and security design reviews for complex systems
• Strong grounding in cloud-native architecture on a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with identity and access management, secrets management, data protection, and API security for AI workloads
• Experience designing guardrails and controls for AI systems
• Working knowledge of AI governance and risk frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001
• Ability to partner with Engineering and Product leaders and influence without authority

Nice to have

• Hands-on Agentic, MCP, ML engineering background
• Experience building or deploying LLM applications, RAG pipelines, custom MCP servers, or agentic systems
• Experience with AI red teaming or adversarial testing of LLM applications and agentic systems
• Experience securing MLOps and model-serving pipelines
• Experience supporting enterprise customer security and AI governance reviews for a B2B SaaS product
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or GIAC certifications

Benefits

• Premium private medical care with priority appointments
• Multisport Cards
• Flexible remote work options
• Partners can be included in health and wellness programs
• Recharge Holidays: one long weekend each quarter

About the company

Gainsight is the AI-powered retention engine behind the world’s most customer-centric companies. The Gainsight CustomerOS platform orchestrates the customer journey from onboarding to outcomes to advocacy.