Principal AI Security Engineer

The Role

Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities. This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate them into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.

What You Will Do

• Design, develop, test, and deploy controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
• Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
• Implement identity, authorization, secrets, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
• Perform AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
• Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
• Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
• Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.

Additional information

Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies. Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.

Required Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in security engineering, application security, product security, cloud security, software engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security, logging, monitoring, and secure development controls.
• Experience implementing technical controls that are unique to the evolving AI risk landscape.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
• Ability to conduct threat modeling and convert findings into working engineering solutions.
• Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience developing or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, or machine learning platforms.
• Experience with AI gateways, model routing, RAG, vector databases, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
• Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, or automated control validation.
• Relevant security, cloud, application security, or AI engineering certifications.

Pay and benefits

The base compensation range for the position in the U.S. is - $179,760 to $341,520 based on a full-time schedule reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Kyndryl, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting.

Your actual compensation may vary depending on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, geography, relevant job-related skills, education and experience, certification and licenses, internal pay equity, and market and business consideration. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement.

There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:

• California (San Francisco Bay Area): $215,640 to $409,800
• California (All Other): $197,640 to $375,600
• Colorado: $179,760 to $341,520
• Massachusetts/ Virginia: $179,760 to $375,600
• New York City: $215,640 to $409,800
• Washington: $197,600 to $375,600
• Washington DC: $197,640 to $375,600

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl's applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off. Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.