This role pays more than
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of similar roles. Most pay
$154,550–$214,850
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At the midpoint, this role pays about
$198k
versus about
$185k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Fortinet
Fortinet is a US-based cybersecurity company best known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls. It sells a broad security platform spanning network security, SD-WAN, endpoint protection, cloud security, and SIEM/SOC operations.
Fortinet currently has
56 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$170,000–$219,000
across 46 roles with salary data.
The Principal AI Security Engineer joins the Corporate Information Security team as a subject matter expert focused on ensuring the security, safety, and privacy of AI-driven applications. This role involves conducting code reviews, performing AI Red Teaming assessments, and executing threat modeling for products like chatbots, MCP implementations, and autonomous agents. The engineer will build and maintain security guardrails, input/output filters, and policy enforcement layers for LLM interactions while integrating specific checks into CI/CD workflows. Key technical competencies include expertise in LLM architectures, vector databases, Agentic AI, and prompt engineering. The role requires deep knowledge of OWASP Top 10, API security, cloud-native microservices, and containerization. Candidates must navigate complex risks such as prompt injection and data poisoning to protect infrastructure from emerging attack vectors within the evolving AI landscape.
AI Security
LLM Security
Red Teaming
Python
Terraform
CloudFormation
Bedrock
Infrastructure as Code
Threat Modeling
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs
MITRE ATLAS
IAM
OIDC
SAML
RAG Pipelines
Prompt Injection
Cybersecurity
Red Teaming
AI Agents
Python
C#
C++
Go
PowerShell
.NET
Rust
Azure
AWS
GCP
Entra ID
Active Directory
Windows
Linux
MITRE ATT&CK
Detection Engineering
Incident Response