• Senior Security Engineer, AGI Security

    Amazon (Seattle, WA)


    Description

    The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is focused on building world-class general-purpose intelligence services. Its primary mission involves developing highly autonomous systems through novel model architectures, learning, and inference strategies. The team works on creating a family of new Generative AI models and applications that are efficient and capable.

     

    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 against AGI infrastructure.

    5. Contribute to security automation tooling for building new Generative AI detection and tooling capabilities

    6. Identify actionable and scalable mitigations for identified vulnerabilities, and collaborate with AGI product and engineering teams to influence and prioritize their resolution.

    7. Mentor builders who aspire to become security advocates & security engineers via 1-1 sessions & office hours.

    Basic Qualifications

    - Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information security, or equivalent

     

    - 5+ years of experience in security engineering

     

    - Experience with Large Language Model (LLM) security including attack techniques and mitigation methods for LLMs

     

    - 3+ years of programming in Python, Java, C++ or similar language experience

    Preferred Qualifications

    - Experience with multimodal GenAI systems, and attack techniques and mitigation methods for such systems

     

    - Experience translating business needs into technical requirements

     

    - Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

     

    - Strong problem-solving ability and the ability to work in ambiguous and constantly evolving environment

     

    - Strong interest in researching and developing new technologies with high customer impact

     

    Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

     

    Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

     

    Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.