Senior Lead Software Engineer, AI Security Platform
Northern Trust
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This role pays less than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $148,875–$217,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $120k versus about $183k for comparable roles.
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Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management
Northern Trust currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$194,700 across 42 roles with salary data.
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The Sr Associate Software Engineer, AI Security joins the team to support the technical development of an AI-powered Code Security Scanner platform. This role involves the ongoing development, architectural evolution, and long-term enhancement of a system that utilizes frontier AI models and advanced security automation to identify, validate, and report software vulnerabilities across enterprise codebases. Daily responsibilities include building user-facing applications, improving reporting dashboards, managing orchestration and scanning services, and integrating LLM-based security analysis capabilities. The candidate must possess expert-level Python development skills, mid-level React experience for modern SPA architecture, and proficiency in REST APIs, authentication integrations, and automation frameworks. Key technical competencies include agent-based workflows, test automation, quality engineering, and application security. This role specifically addresses the challenge of automating vulnerability analysis and securing cloud-native solutions within a complex software environment.
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