Alpaca AI Security Engineer at Alpaca responsible for technical security controls for AI usage including identity for AI agents, security requirements, guardrails, and security logging. Assist in developing AI-powered security tooling.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an AI Security Engineer to own the technical security controls for how Alpaca uses AI. The scope includes identity for AI agents and automations, security requirements for AI tools and integrations, guardrails, and security logging. You will also assist in developing AI-powered security tooling.
This role reports to the Enterprise Security Architect and works closely with AI Enablement, Engineering, DevOps, GRC, and the wider Security team.
The Security Team is 100% distributed and remote.
Things You Get To Do:
The core responsibilities of the AI Security Engineer are focused on AI access controls, secure AI platforms, guardrails, visibility into AI usage, and AI-powered security tooling.
AI Identity and Access Controls:
Agent Identity: Define how AI agents, bots, and automations authenticate, what they can access, and how their actions are attributed and audited.
Tool Access: Own security requirements for AI tool integrations, including least-privilege access and credential handling.
AI Assistant Controls: Define and enforce security settings for approved AI tools, including data handling and access policy.
Least Privilege: Limit each agent and integration to the access it needs, and review that access when the integration changes.
Secure AI Platform, Tooling, and Response:
Security Requirements: Define security requirements for internal AI applications, including identity, data handling, secrets, and review of new integrations.
Qualification
Understanding of AI-specific risks
Required
Excited about Alpaca’s mission and what we’re building
2+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, or cloud security roles
Hands-on experience securing LLM applications, AI agents, or AI developer tools
Understanding of AI-specific risks, such as prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and insecure tool use (for example, the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications)
Experience with identity and access controls for services and non-human identities, including OAuth, service accounts, and secrets management
Programming experience in Python or another general-purpose language
Experience with CI/CD security checks and cloud-native deployments
Experience with security operations or incident response
Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining risk to non-security builders
Comfortable working cross-functionally and making pragmatic security decisions
Willing to participate in an on-call rotation
Experience building AI-assisted workflows for security operations
