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Principal Technical Consultant – Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Security

AHEAD· Security Delivery
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Remote$200k - $230kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior, customer-facing technical leader responsible for deploying, integrating, and operationalizing AI security capabilities in real-world customer and enterprise environments, focusing on securing AI systems, LLM applications, and agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior technical lead for deploying and operationalizing AI security solutions in customer or enterprise environments
  • Develop technical proposals, statements of work, and solution architectures that scope AI security engagements and support business development efforts
  • Translate business, operational, and AI security requirements into deployable architectures and implementation plans
  • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned to AI governance, compliance requirements, and long-term platform strategy
  • Act as a trusted advisor and executive-level point of contact during onboarding, implementation, rollout, and optimization phases
  • Design and implement integrations across AI platforms, model registries, LLM gateways, vector databases, and AI-enabled security tooling
  • Build and configure cloud-native data ingestion, normalization, and enrichment pipelines for AI telemetry, model activity logs, and prompt/response data
  • Integrate APIs, webhooks, message queues, and automation workflows across AI operations, identity, cloud, and application ecosystems supporting AI systems
  • Develop reusable deployment patterns, templates, and technical assets to accelerate future AI security implementations
  • Operationalize security controls and guardrails for AI systems, including prompt injection defense, model access controls, data leakage prevention, and agentic workflow monitoring
  • Secure non-human identities (NHI), including service accounts, API keys, tokens, and autonomous agent credentials, across AI and agentic workflows
  • Work with AI, detection engineering, and data teams to implement red teaming, adversarial testing, model risk scoring, and anomaly detection for AI systems
  • Help define data requirements, feedback loops, and operational guardrails needed to secure AI systems in production environments
  • Ensure deployed solutions are practical, measurable, and aligned to AI governance and risk objectives
  • Implement secure and governed automation for AI security monitoring, investigation, and response use cases across heterogeneous environments
  • Support resiliency, observability, performance, and scale requirements for deployed AI security solutions
  • Troubleshoot integration issues, deployment blockers, and production challenges in partnership with AI, platform, cloud, and security teams
  • Improve reliability and maintainability through documentation, testing, monitoring, and standardized engineering practices
  • Lead cross-team collaboration across AI Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Science, Infrastructure, Sales, and product or customer teams
  • Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive audiences
  • Mentor and develop engineers and consultants, contributing to best practices for AI security implementation, delivery, and technical solution design
  • Provide field feedback to influence platform roadmap, product direction, and architectural standards
  • Represent the practice in pre-sales activities, proposal development, and client presentations

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in security engineering, AI engineering, platform engineering, forward deployed engineering, solutions consulting, or related technical roles, with demonstrated progression to a principal or senior consulting level
  • Hands-on experience securing AI systems, LLM applications, or AI production pipelines
  • Experience deploying cloud-native architectures on at least one major cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong background in data integration, telemetry pipelines, normalization, and security analytics workflows applied to AI systems
  • Experience working directly with customers, executive stakeholders, or cross-functional delivery teams in implementation-focused environments
  • Proven experience developing technical proposals, statements of work, and scoping documents for customer engagements
  • Ability to lead technical engagements, drive execution, and influence outcomes without direct authority
  • Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team collaboration across engineering, security, data science, and business stakeholders

Skills

Required:AI security engineeringCloud-native architecturesData integration and telemetrySolution architecture and proposals

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Plus more! See benefits at https://www.aheadbenefits.com/
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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