AI Security Engineer

Emcor UK

$134K — $171K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 7 years in cybersecurity, security engineering, and architecture.
  • At least 3 years securing cloud platforms, APIs, and CI/CD.
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts is essential.
  • Experience in security monitoring, detection, and incident response.
  • Preferred qualifications include CISSP, CCSP, or GIAC certification.
  • Strong communication skills for interaction at all levels of the organization.
  • Proven ability to provide exceptional customer service.

Responsibilities

  • Adopt and maintain the Enterprise AI Security Reference Architecture.
  • Establish security patterns and guardrails for AI use cases.
  • Conduct threat modeling for AI systems and translate threats into controls.
  • Operationalize AI governance with Legal and Risk teams.
  • Maintain the AI risk assessment process with GRC.
  • Implement controls to prevent data leakage and exposure of sensitive info.
  • Integrate AI security testing capabilities for various threats.
  • Define logging and monitoring requirements for AI incidents.
  • Assist in assessments of AI vendors and cloud services.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Health savings and flexible spending accounts included.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage offered.
  • 401(k) Savings Plan available.
  • Access to College Coach and employee assistance program.
Full Job Description
Job Summary

EMCOR Group, Inc. seeks an AI Security Engineer who will be responsible for securing the organization's artificial intelligence capabilities-including GenAI systems, ML pipelines, model hosting, AI integrations, and AI-enabled business processes-through a combination of security architecture, governance, risk management, and hands-on engineering. This role designs and implements security controls to reduce risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, model exfiltration, supply-chain compromise, unauthorized use, and AI-driven abuse, while enabling safe adoption across the enterprise.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

  • Adopt and maintain the Enterprise AI Security Reference Architecture
  • Establish security patterns and guardrails for AI use cases including approved data sources, allowed tools, etc.
  • Conduct threat modeling for AI systems and integrations and translate threats into technical controls
  • Operationalize AI governance with EMCOR Legal and Risk
  • Work with EMCOR Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) to maintain the AI risk assessment process
  • Implement and maintain controls to prevent data leakage and sensitive information exposure in AI prompts, outputs, logs, and training sets
  • Work with EMCOR Security Identity and Access Management (IAM) and GRC to deploy and tune protections like DLP, data classification, prompt and response filtering, RAG hardening and model endpoint security
  • Integrate and maintain AI security testing capabilities such as prompt injection, model behavior evaluations, adversarial testing, etc.
  • Work with EMCOR Security Operations to define and implement logging and monitoring requirements, create detection use cases, and playbooks for AI related incidents
  • Assist with AI vendor and cloud services assessments


Qualifications

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  • Seven years minimum experience in cybersecurity, security engineering and security architecture
  • Three years minimum experience securing cloud platforms, APIs, and CI/CD
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts
  • Experience with security monitoring and detection, and incident response
  • CISSP, CCSP, or GIAC or equivalent certification preferred
  • Ability to effectively communicate and interact with personnel at all levels
  • Must be capable of delivering a very high level of customer service


Compensation Range: $134,000 - $171,000.

Other Compensation: This position is bonus eligible.

Benefits: We are committed to providing employees a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with health savings and flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability, a 401(k) Savings Plan, College Coach and employee assistance program.

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