AI Security & Compliance Engineer - Onsite

At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees have been key factors in our company’s growth and market presence. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here.

For more than 25 years, NTT DATA Services have focused on impacting the core of your business operations with industry-leading outsourcing services and automation. With our industry-specific platforms, we deliver continuous value addition, and innovation that will improve your business outcomes. Outsourcing is not just a method of gaining a one-time cost advantage, but an effective strategy for gaining and maintaining competitive advantages when executed as part of an overall sourcing strategy.

NTT DATA Services currently seeks a AI Security & Compliance Engineerto join our team in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Role purpose
Ensure AI and GenAI systems are designed, deployed, and operated securely and in compliance with enterprise technology, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory standards. The role focuses on emerging LLM risks as well as traditional cloud, application, and data-security controls.
Primary ownership

• Security architecture and control implementation for AI platforms, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems.
• Threat modeling, AI red teaming, vulnerability assessment, and remediation guidance.
• Security evidence, control documentation, and compliance support for production approvals.

Key responsibilities

• Design and review secure architectures for AI/ML platforms, LLM applications, RAG pipelines, model-serving environments, and agentic AI workflows.
• Conduct threat modeling for prompt injection, jailbreaks, insecure tool use, model inversion, data leakage, retrieval poisoning, adversarial inputs, and unauthorized access.
• Implement controls for IAM, encryption, secrets management, network segmentation, API security, logging, secure data handling, and data-loss prevention.
• Embed security into MLOps, LLMOps, CI/CD, container security, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment pipelines.
• Review third-party models, APIs, open-source packages, AI tools, and vendor platforms for security, privacy, and compliance risks.
• Build monitoring and alerting for suspicious AI usage, anomalous access, policy violations, unsafe interactions, and potential data leakage.
• Support AI red teaming, penetration testing, vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation planning.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation for controls, testing, risk acceptance, and production-readiness reviews.

Must-have candidate profile

• Strong background in cybersecurity, cloud security, application security, DevSecOps, or technology risk.
• Experience securing cloud-native platforms, APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Understanding of AI/ML and GenAI-specific risks such as prompt injection, adversarial attacks, data leakage, model misuse, and unsafe tool use.
• Familiarity with threat modeling, vulnerability management, security testing, incident response, and secure SDLC practices.
• Ability to work directly with engineering teams to implement practical, risk-based controls.

Preferred experience

• Experience securing AI/ML platforms or GenAI applications in production.
• Financial-services security, technology risk, regulatory, or audit experience.
• Familiarity with AI red teaming, model supply-chain risk, secure RAG design, LLM gateways, and privacy-by-design controls.

About NTT DATA Services:

NTT DATA Services is a recognized leader in IT and business services, including cloud, data and applications, headquartered in Texas. As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion trusted global innovator with a combined global reach of over 80 countries, we help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients’ long-term success. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.

NTT DATA Services is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants without regarding to race, color, religion, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual …