Guardrails Engineer

The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)

$156K — $166K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years in engineering, security testing, QA automation, risk technology, AI safety, or platform testing.
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Python and test automation.
  • 5+ years understanding LLM risks and responsible AI controls.
  • 5+ years in creating validation processes and repeatable evidence artifacts.
  • Ability to engage with cross-functional teams including engineering, security, risk, compliance, and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop automated guardrail testing frameworks for LLM applications and tools.
  • Conduct various types of security testing including adversarial and prompt injection testing.
  • Validate compliance with content safety and responsible AI protocols.
  • Generate repeatable evidence packages for governance reviews.
  • Collaborate with teams to define control requirements and integration strategy.
  • Integrate guardrail tests into platform CI/CD and release processes.
  • Document findings and provide remediation recommendations.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending or health savings account.
  • Employee assistance program.
  • 401k program participation.
  • Access to voluntary or legally-required benefits.
Full Job Description
We are currently seeking a Guardrails Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC), United States (US). Job Description: Guardrails Engineer will build and automate guardrail testing, adversarial testing, policy validation, security checks, and evidence generation for AI agents and LLM-powered solutions. This role is responsible for helping ensure safe, compliant, and controlled deployment of Agentic AI use cases. Key Responsibilities Develop automated guardrail testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications, agents, tools, and workflows. Perform adversarial testing, prompt injection testing, jailbreak testing, red-team-style testing, and policy control validation. Validate content safety, data protection, security, responsible AI, and model risk controls. Build repeatable evidence packages to support approval gates and governance reviews. Collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements. Integrate guardrail tests into platform lifecycle, CI/CD, release readiness, and production enablement processes. Document findings, control gaps, remediation recommendations, and readiness evidence. Basic Qualifications 7+ years of engineering, security testing, QA automation, risk technology, AI safety, or platform testing experience. 5+ years of strong hands-on Python and test automation experience. 5+ years of Understanding of LLM risks, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, content safety, data leakage, and Responsible AI controls. 5+ years of Experience creating test harnesses, validation processes, and repeatable evidence artifacts. Ability to work with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and product stakeholders. Required Skills / Knowledge Python, adversarial testing, red-team testing, prompt security, responsible AI, guardrails, security testing, test harnesses, and evidence automation. Understanding of AI governance, model risk, content policy controls, approval gates, and regulated delivery. Ability to automate repeatable quality and safety checks for enterprise AI solutions. Preferred Qualifications Experience with GenAI security, AI red teaming, model risk controls, or regulated AI delivery. Experience with CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and enterprise security frameworks. Banking or financial services experience. Expected Outcomes Automated guardrail and adversarial testing framework. Repeatable governance evidence for AI approval gates. Improved safety, control validation, and release confidence for agents. #LI-NorthAmerica NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is [ 75 - 80 W2 hourly range]. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate's relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position is eligible for company benefits including participation in medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits

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