Olix
AI Security Engineer
London, UK. Posted 9 days ago
The role
The AI Security Engineer will map the AI footprint, secure agents and identities, and protect compute infrastructure. You will build controls to prevent IP and data leakage through AI systems and enable safe tool adoption.
What you will do
- Build and maintain the inventory of AI tools, models, agents and data flows
- Give every agent a managed identity, least-privilege access, logged actions and human approvals
- Build controls against prompt injection, data leakage, model and package supply chain, unsafe agent actions and shadow AI
- Harden the cloud compute used to build and run AI workloads
- Run ISO 42001 self-assessment and feed AI security events into SIEM
- Review new AI tools and publish guardrails
Required qualifications
- 5 or more years in security engineering, application security or cloud security
- At least 2 years securing AI or ML systems, LLM applications or agents
- Hands-on knowledge of LLM-specific threats and their mitigations
- Experience securing agentic systems: tool permissions, MCP servers, credentials and human approval steps
- AWS security experience and identity experience
- Software engineering in Python or TypeScript
- Daily use of AI coding tools and agents in your own work
Nice to have
- experience with ISO 42001 or the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
- experience in a hardware or deep-tech company
- Okta
Benefits
- Meaningful stock options
- Annual Living-Local Bonus if you live within 20 minutes of the office
- Employer-contributed retirement plans
Before you apply
- Candidates' eligibility to work at OLIX depends on most recent citizenship or permanent residency status due to U.S. export control regulations
- Generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Venezuela
About the company
OLIX builds infrastructure for frontier AI. The company developed the OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) to address the industry's hardware blueprint limits.