Lead Engineer, AI Security

Target

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Work type
Remote
Location
Brooklyn Park, MN
Salary
$132,000–$238,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 21, 2026

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Target Corporation is a large-format general merchandise and grocery retailer offering a wide assortment of everyday essentials, apparel, home goods, and electronics through stores and online. Industry: General Merchandise Retail

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TL;DR · Lead Engineer, AI Security

As a Lead Engineer on the AI Security team, you will collaborate with technical and leadership teams to assess, validate, and improve the security of AI systems and platforms. You will identify security risks, perform architectural reviews, and develop testing frameworks, including threat modeling and attack simulations. Your daily work involves evaluating security controls for AI workloads across cloud and hybrid environments, specifically addressing prompt injection, RAG poisoning, and agent security. You must possess deep expertise in LLM security, containerization, and cybersecurity domains like Cloud Security, IAM, and SIEM. Required skills include proficiency in multiple programming languages, knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and experience with security frameworks like NIST or ISO/IEC 27001 to protect enterprise AI infrastructure.

What you'll do

  • Assess and validate the security posture of AI systems and platforms throughout their entire lifecycle.
  • Identify security risks, vulnerabilities, and design weaknesses in AI architectures, models, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Develop and execute security validation strategies including threat modeling, attack simulation, and adversarial testing.
  • Perform deep technical reviews of AI products to provide actionable recommendations for strengthening security posture.
  • Define security assessment methodologies, testing frameworks, and assurance standards specifically for AI technologies.
  • Provide expert guidance on AI security best practices like prompt injection defenses, model security, and data protection.
  • Recommend risk mitigation strategies and prioritized remediation plans to improve the resilience of AI systems.
  • Communicate complex security risks and emerging AI-specific threats to technical and leadership stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • A 4-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
  • Must be a software developer comfortable in several programming languages across different platforms.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in technology is required.
  • Must have deep knowledge of cybersecurity domains including Information Protection, Cloud Security, Networking Security, IAM, Automation, and SIEM.
  • Must have LLM Security expertise including RAG, MCP, input validation, and sandboxing.
  • Must have an in-depth understanding of OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications.
  • Must have a solid understanding of AI, ML, containerization technologies, and secure software development.
  • Must have experience with security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, and DLP.
  • Experience with GCP native security products (preferred).
  • Experience with commercial security products (preferred).
  • Vertex AI experience (preferred).
  • AWS or Azure experience (preferred).

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