Staff AI Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo.

🏢 About Addepar

We are seeking a well rounded Staff AI Security Engineer to join our growing Information Security & Risk team. In this role, you will be a member of our newly formed Security Solutions team. This team is at the forefront of driving organization-wide security enhancements through high-impact, project-driven initiatives with a heavy focus on AI.

🎯 The Role

If you are looking for an opportunity to build from the ground up, influence security architecture, and meaningfully elevate Addepar’s overall security posture, this is the role for you.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Innovation & Strategy - Keep up with the latest trends, models and innovations in all facets of AI Security and advise on proper architectures
• AI Enablement - Partnering with our Architecture team to continue to evolve Addepar’s Internal AI Productivity initiatives by securely enabling our business to leverage AI to streamline processes and enhance productivity.
• AI Guardrails - Advising or implementing guardrails and controls to minimize data loss risks and use of insecure or unapproved methods of AI use.
• AI for Security - Guiding and Mentoring fellow Security teams on how to leverage AI for security benefits.
• AI Governance - Ensure documentation and guidance for all employees is kept up to date and assist with any questions or concerns that arise.
• Security Architecture & Design - Collaborate with engineering and product teams to architect, build, and deploy scalable, resilient security solutions.
• Enablement & Automation - Build tools, guardrails, and automated workflows that empower development teams to ship secure code quickly and safely.
• Risk Mitigation - Identify gaps in the current security posture, design remediation plans, and systematically execute them to maturity.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Act as a trusted security advisor across engineering, product, and R&D teams, fostering a strong culture of security enablement rather than restriction.
• Mentorship - Mentor junior and mid-level engineers within the Information Security & Risk team, helping to elevate collective technical capabilities.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Project Leadership: Proven track record of taking vague security problems, turning them into structured project plans, and executing them to completion.
• Attention to details and analytical skills.
• Curious, always learning and deeply interested in Information Security.
• Ability to build strong relationships and work collaboratively with internal and external partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Deep expertise in all aspects of AI including AWS Services, LLM’s, MCP, Agentic Agents, Frameworks, Governance & Regulations, Attacks, Guardrails and solid understanding of costs.
• A Software Engineering background is a strong plus.
• Amazon Web Services across its most widely used services, especially Security services.
• Strong experience and understanding with Authentication & Authorization protocols. and how non-human identities can be secured appropriately.
• AI based certification such as AAISM, AAIA or CAISP.
• Knowledge and Experience with AI based frameworks such as NIST AI Framework or EU Artificial Intelligence Act
• Knowledge and Experience with MITRE ATLAS or OWASSP Top 10 for LLM’s.
• Bachelors or Masters Degree with a focus in Information Systems/Computer Science/Security

🎁 Benefits

The current range for this role is $159,000 - $249,000 (base salary) + bonus + equity + benefits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without requiring current or future visa sponsorship (for example, employment-based visas such as H-1B, F-1/OPT, or similar), and must be authorized to begin work in the U.S. on their first day of employment.