Cyber Strategy, Risk & Compliance - AI Engineering for Cybersecurity - Senior Associate

PWC

Actively hiring
New York - 300 Madison Avenue, US Posted 64 days ago $77,000$202,000 / year

At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Associate on the Cyber Strategy, Risk & Compliance team, you will play a pivotal role in developing and deploying AI/ML systems for cybersecurity applications such as threat detection and risk management. Your responsibilities include building data pipelines for model training and inference on cloud platforms like AWS and GCP, creating proofs-of-concept for innovative agentic and generative AI solutions, and writing high-quality code and documentation. You will also collaborate with senior team members to design security solutions and present technical findings to stakeholders. The ideal candidate has at least 3 years of experience in software development or AI/ML engineering, proficiency in Python and AI/ML frameworks, and experience implementing cloud-native AI services. Additional skills such as LLM orchestration, ML Ops tools like Docker and Kubernetes, and familiarity with AI-enabled automation platforms are highly valued. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cybersecurity challenges at a large scale.

Skills

Python AWS GCP Docker Kubernetes CI/CD LLM orchestration frameworks Swimlane Torq Tines Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MongoDB Git Jenkins Ansible Terraform

What you'll do

  • Develop and deploy AI/ML systems for cybersecurity threat detection and risk management.
  • Implement data pipelines on cloud platforms for model training and inference.
  • Build proofs-of-concept using agentic and generative AI to solve client security issues.
  • Write high-quality code and documentation for production-ready AI-powered security solutions.
  • Assist in designing the architecture of AI-enabled security systems with senior team members.

What we're looking for

  • At least 3 years of experience in software development or AI/ML engineering.
  • Bachelor's Degree required; Master's preferred in a relevant technical field.
  • Proficiency in Python and AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch.
  • Experience implementing cloud-native AI services on AWS or GCP.
  • Utilization of ML Ops tools like Docker, Kubernetes for model deployment.
  • Professional certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer).
  • Demonstrated ability to build and deploy AI/ML systems for cybersecurity use cases.

Market check

Salary context

This $77,000–$202,000 range sits above 25% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$125,300$213,200

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,400$217,712

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 239 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About PWC

PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) is one of the "Big Four" accounting and professional services firms, providing audit, tax, and advisory services to companies, governments, and institutions worldwide. Industry: Professional Services & Accounting

PWC currently has 51 open roles on FindRole.

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