Senior Security Engineer - AI

The role

This role involves engineering security controls for the firm to adopt frontier AI safely. You will design and implement controls in inference gateways, platforms, and developer tooling.

What you will do

• Design and implement security controls in inference gateways, platforms and developer tooling as code and configuration.
• Embed controls in existing engineering systems.
• Define standards and patterns for teams building with AI.
• Define internal agent identity, permissions, and enforcement.
• Build telemetry to record activity.
• Establish how agent and automation activity is proven for audit and investigation.
• Secure developer harnesses, plugins, and dependency and model provenance.
• Own secrets handling and vulnerability management across AI tooling.
• Set provenance and integrity requirements for models and components.
• Threat model live systems across platform, gateway, agent identity, and AI supply chain.

Required qualifications

• Experience with LLM platforms, inference gateways or agent frameworks.
• Eight or more years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, platform engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• A strong academic record in computer science or software engineering.
• Software engineering ability to build and ship controls in production systems.
• Depth in at least one of application security, platform and cloud security, or security architecture, with working breadth across the others.
• Hands-on experience securing cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
• The judgment to work in an area with no established practice and make control decisions using incomplete information.
• Fluent day-to-day use of coding agents.

Nice to have

• Working in a regulated or high-security environment.
• Detection engineering or incident response.
• Defining security practice in a function or capability that did not previously exist.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

QRT is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating across all liquid asset classes. It is a data- and technology-driven organization applying scientific methods to investing.