harvey nashChicago, IL
Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer
$160,000 - $180,000 per year
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Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer
harvey nashChicago, IL
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$160,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Title: Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer
Location: Chicago IL 60605/ New York City, NY -- 4 daysonsite, 1 day remote
Perm/FTE role
Job Description
Role Overview: TheSr.
Automation:
- Engineer/Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer serves as a senior technical authorityresponsible for designing, building, and governing enterprise-scaleintelligent automation systems centered on agentic artificial intelligence.
- Thisrole sits at the intersection of advanced AI engineering, securityarchitecture, and organizational strategy — driving the adoption ofautonomous agent frameworks across complex, multi-team environments.
- Theposition demands a practitioner who canoperateat both the deeptechnical layer and the executive advisory level, translating emerging AIcapabilities into resilient, production-grade systems that meet the mostrigorous security and compliance standards.
- Your responsibilities will be:
- Deep hands‐on experience building and deployingagentic AI systems, including LLM APIs, RAG, prompt engineering, and multi‐agent architectures
- Strong security mindset with expertise in AI threatmodeling, prompt injection defense, zero‐trust principles, and securehandling of model inputs/outputs
- Solid software engineering foundation (Python +compiled language) with experience in microservices, CI/CD, andinfrastructure-as‐code
- Ability to design resilient AI systems with strongobservability, tracing, and understanding of non-deterministic failuremodes
- Proven ability to operate cross‐functionally and leadwithout authority across engineering, security, product, and operations
- Capable of translating complex technical conceptsinto clear roadmaps, architecture decisions, and executive‐levelcommunication
- The ideal candidate has
- Proven track record building production‐grade agenticAI systems that operate reliably at scale
- Hands‐on experience designing agent orchestrationpatterns, debugging non‐deterministic failures, and delivering observable, auditable AI pipelines in regulated environments
- Strong applied security expertise, includingimplementing defenses against prompt injection, jailbreaking, and toolmisuse, with experience in red‐teaming or penetration testing AI systems
- Demonstrated ability to drive alignment acrosssecurity, legal, compliance, product, and engineering, turning competingpriorities into practical, well‐documented outcomes
- Comfortable presenting architectural trade‐offs andrisk decisions to senior leadership in high‐stakes environments
- Experience in financial services or regulatedindustries, with exposure to AI governance, model risk management, orinternal AI policy development preferred
- A reasonable, good faith The anticipated base paycompensation range for this position is$160,000.00 to$180,000.00
Benefits:
Full time employees are eligible For Health Insurance, Paid Time Off, and 401k match* The pay range listed above reflects the expectedstarting salary /Pay rate for this role. This range may be adjusted based onmarket conditions, location, and other relevant factors. The Company willdetermine the final starting salary/Pay rate in full compliance with applicable laws
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Level
Senior
Salary
$160,000 - $180,000 per year
Location
Chicago, IL
Occupation
Information Security Engineers
Industry
Computer Systems Design Services
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