Ford Motor Company

Senior Cybersecurity Platform Engineer

Ford Motor Company$120K — $150K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Paramus, NJ
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field OR equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in security and platform engineering within complex environments
  • Proficient in managing enterprise security platforms and tools
  • Experience with scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Knowledge of cloud security platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts and security challenges

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement security platforms to protect IT infrastructure
  • Optimize technologies for real-time security threat detection
  • Collaborate with teams to deploy enterprise cybersecurity solutions
  • Secure AI/ML systems against various cyber threats
  • Implement comprehensive security guidelines for AI systems
  • Conduct vulnerability assessments on AI models and data pipelines
  • Monitor security incidents and support incident response

Benefits

  • Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
  • Flexible family care days and paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance and generous paid time off
  • Vehicle discounts for employees and family members
  • Established employee resource groups and community service days
Full Job Description
Job Description

This role is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and maintaining security platforms that support enterprise cybersecurity operations. The role focuses on integrating security agents/tools, improving detection capabilities, ensuring platform reliability, and enabling security teams through scalable infrastructure and automation. This role demands cloud experience blended with platform engineering capabilities to mature the AI Security platform/tools.

Responsibilities

What you'll do...
• Design, implement, maintain, and improve security platforms and tools that protect the organization's IT infrastructure.
• Optimize security technologies to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats in real time.
• Collaborate with engineering, IT, and security operations teams to deploy and support enterprise cybersecurity platforms and solutions.
• Secure in-house and public AI and ML/DL systems against cyber threats, adversarial attacks, and data breaches across the solution lifecycle.
• Design and implement robust security platforms supporting enterprise security needs (e.g., unified telemetry pipeline like BindPlane, SIEM like QRadar, SecOps, and AI security).
• Define and maintain guidelines and controls to secure AI systems, including data protection, model security, and compliance requirements.
• Apply established frameworks as references/baselines (e.g., Google Secure AI Framework (SAIF), NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Framework for AI Cybersecurity Practices (FAICP)).
• Identify, assess, and mitigate AI-specific security risks (adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, unauthorized access).
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines.
• Ensure AI data is encrypted, anonymized, and securely stored.
• Implement access controls for sensitive AI data and models (RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust).
• Protect AI models from tampering, theft, and adversarial manipulation during training and deployment.
• Monitor and log AI system activity for anomalies and security incidents.
• Develop and enforce policies to align AI systems with industry regulations, ethical standards, and organizational governance requirements.
• Develop automated workflows and scripts to enhance security platform functionality and scalability, improving operational efficiency.
• Manage timely patching and upgrades to security tools and systems to reduce downtime and minimize vulnerabilities.
• Configure alerting systems for security threats and enable real-time monitoring for observability.
• Partner with incident response teams to identify, contain, and mitigate security incidents.
• Support root cause analysis to improve security posture and prevent repeat breaches.
• Optimize security tools and platforms for performance and effectiveness while meeting compliance and organizational requirements.
• Maintain documentation for platform configurations, AI services and capabilities, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures.

Qualifications

You'll have...
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field OR a combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, and AI/ML, including experience in large, complex environments, such as:
• Managing security platforms and tools in enterprise environments
• Telemetry pipeline platforms (e.g., BindPlane), SIEM (e.g., Splunk, QRadar), and vulnerability management tools
• Scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, and/or Bash)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
• Cloud security tools and platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Container security (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Networking protocols, firewalls, and network security best practices
• AI/ML concepts, architectures, and AI security challenges
• AI threat areas (adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, unauthorized access)
• Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines
• Data protection techniques (encryption, anonymization, secure storage) and secure access management (RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust)
• Incident response, monitoring tools, and threat intelligence platforms
• Security frameworks and compliance references (SAIF, NIST, FAICP)
• ITSM processes and tools (ServiceNow) and delivery practices/tools (Agile, JIRA)

Even better, you may have...
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
• Understanding of cloud AI/ML services and deployment pipelines.
• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).
• CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional).
• Preferred certifications such as CAISF, AICERTs, AI for Cybersecurity Specialization, or equivalent.
• GCP cloud certification or equivalent in AWS or Azure (preferred).
• Additional cybersecurity certificates (preferred).
• Excellent communication and documentation skills for policy development and stakeholder engagement.

You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we've outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company, we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company, we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe, or keep you close to home? Will your career be a deep dive into what you love, or a series of new teams and new skills? Will you be a leader, a changemaker, a technical expert, a culture builder...or all of the above? No matter what you choose, we offer a work life that works for you, including:
• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits, click here:
https://fordcareers.co/GSR-HTHD
This position is a range of salary grades 7-8.

SOUTHEAST MI RESIDENTS: This role is posted as remote unless you reside within 50 miles of Dearborn, MI-in which case we request on-site presence up to 4 days a week.

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Candidates for positions with Ford Motor Company must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.

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About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company manufactures or distributes automobiles in addition to offering financial services. The company sells to dealerships for retail sales, and for sale to fleet customers, including commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Ford’s vehicle portfolio includes automobiles, buses, tractors, and trucks. Retail financing includes retail installment sale contracts for new and used vehicles, and direct financing leases for new vehicles to retail customers, government entities, daily rental car companies, and fleet customers. Finance receivables in the non-consumer portfolio include products offered to automotive dealers. Ford’s environmental initiatives include compressed natural gas, flexible fuel vehicles, electric drive vehicles, Hydrogen, PC power management, and so on. Ford Motor Company was founded by Henry Ford in 1903 and is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan.

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Size
183,000 employees
Market Cap
$44.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$1.2 billion
Founded
1903
5 Year Trend
-2.1%
Revenue
$127.1 billion
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