Amazon Sr Security Engineer SBS - AGI 

United States, Texas, Austin 

886796382

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. Perform threat modeling and ensure adequate security controls are in place for AGI models, applications, and infrastructure
2. Influence builders to be better security owners, actively engaging with them to innovate faster and develop scalable mechanisms for upholding the high security bar.
3. Create and maintain security documentation, including designs patterns, implementation guides, and secure software development kits (SDKs)
4. Simulate Generative AI adversarial attacks and identify vulnerabilities in .
5. Contribute to security automation tooling for building new Generative AI detection and tooling capabilities7. Mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.About the team
Diverse Experiences
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- 5+ years of experience with any combination of the following: IAM, Security Engineering, Cryptography, Vulnerability Management, Supply Chain Security, Network security, Threat modelling or Penetration testing.
- Expertise in distributed systems security, and fundamental cloud security concepts such as IAM, and cryptography
- 5+ years influencing teams (including providing technical direction, coaching and mentoring)
- 5+ years of experience communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must, as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

- Hands-on experience with AWS basic security building blocks (IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, etc.) and their effective utilization for security controls.
- Hands-on experience with AWS Services and threat modeling systems using them.
- Experience in developing automation solutions to raise the security bar.
- Experience identifying common Generative AI vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, training data poisoning, and model inversion