Senior SW Engineer, AI Security

Visa

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Ashburn, VA
Salary
$118,700–$183,600 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
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About Visa

Visa Inc. is the world''s largest payment network, enabling digital payments for consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and governments through its global processing network and branded card products. Industry: Payments Technology & Financial Services

Visa currently has 104 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior SW Engineer, AI Security

As a Sr. SW Engineer - AI Security, you will join the Cyber Analytics and AI Innovation organization to build security capabilities for the responsible adoption of Generative AI. You will serve as a hands-on individual contributor owning problems end-to-end, from technical design and prototyping to production deployment and monitoring. Your daily work involves building and operating production services and APIs to detect and mitigate risks like prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, and sensitive-data exposure across LLMs, agents, and enterprise data sources. You will utilize Python, Java, Go, or Rust, alongside Docker, Kubernetes, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex. The role focuses on developing deterministic and model-based controls, automated evaluation frameworks, and production observability to protect AI applications from specific security threats.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain production services and APIs to detect and mitigate GenAI risks like prompt injection and jailbreaking.
  • Implement deterministic, policy-driven controls and model-based approaches to protect LLMs, agents, and enterprise data.
  • Build automated evaluation, testing, and feedback loops to monitor detection quality, latency, and false-positive rates.
  • Containerize and deploy security services using Docker and Kubernetes across cloud and on-premises platforms.
  • Apply threat modeling, secure coding practices, and vulnerability remediation to all software development tasks.
  • Evaluate emerging GenAI security technologies through structured proofs of concept and technical guidance.
  • Translate emerging AI-security risks into product capabilities and support production releases and incident analysis.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant work experience, or 5+ years of relevant work experience.
  • Must have professional software-development experience building backend services, APIs, platforms, or distributed applications.
  • Must have experience developing production software using Python, Java, Go, or another modern programming language.
  • Must have experience with cybersecurity, secure software development, application security, cloud security, AI security, or a closely related discipline.
  • Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in computer science, applied math, or a related field (preferred).
  • Strong proficiency in Python and at least one additional language such as Java, Go, or Rust with solid distributed-systems fundamentals (preferred).
  • Hands-on experience with Generative AI application architectures, LLM APIs, and orchestration frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex (preferred).
  • Experience with cloud-native deployment and operations including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability platforms (preferred).

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