Job Description
The basics
Tanium is seeking an AI Security Engineer to lead the development and execution of comprehensive testing strategies that ensure the robustness and reliability of AI-driven solutions. The AI security Engineer will be an integral part of the R&D organization and collaborate closely with AI, Software, and Security Engineers. This role is crucial in evaluating AI models, identifying potential risks, and implementing safety measures that align with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
A successful candidate will be a strong technical leader who can bring their industry expertise to drive vision and development cross-functionally across all levels of the organization. Must have a successful track record of doing safety testing and evaluating AI models.
This is an individual contributor role.
What you’ll do
- Develop and execute AI benchmarking and safety testing strategies for various AI models and applications.
- Design and implement testing protocols to assess the performance, accuracy, and safety of AI solutions.
- Identify potential risks associated with AI technologies and propose mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate safety measures into AI development processes.
- Analyze testing results and provide detailed reports on AI model performance and safety.
- Stay current with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices for AI safety testing.
- Drive continuous improvement in AI safety testing methodologies and tools.
We’re looking for someone with
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience.
- Expertise with common security testing methodologies.
- Experience with regulatory compliance and industry standards for AI safety.
- Familiarity with AI development frameworks and tools.
- Strong understanding of AI and machine learning algorithms and their associated risks.
- Experience with LLMs, AI Agents, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, with a focus on safety testing and benchmarking.
- Other
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Detailed oriented individual with a deep drive to research the security of bleeding edge technology.
About Tanium
Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. Driven by AI and real-time endpoint intelligence, Tanium Autonomous IT empowers IT and security teams to make their organizations unstoppable.
Many of the world’s leading organizations trust Tanium’s single, unified platform for endpoint management and security to innovate faster, stay resilient and move business forward with confidence, at scale. To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business – visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.
On a mission. Together.
At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.
As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.
Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.
Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.
What you’ll get
The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $120,000 to $355,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.
In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.
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