Assistant Vice President- AI Security Engineering
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Job Description
- Demonstrate ability to lead secure AI engineering at enterprise and multi-client scale
- Strong balance of technical depth, risk judgment, and executive communication
- Proven effectiveness operating in global, regulated, client-delivery environments
- Credibility with both deeply technical teams and non-technical executive stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the Secure AI Engineering practice across enterprise and client-delivered AI solutions.
- Establish secure-by-design standards, guardrails, and engineering controls for ML, GenAI, LLM, RAG, and Agentic AI systems
- Translate regulatory and risk requirements into practical engineering standards aligned with business outcomes.
- Oversee security architecture for the end-to-end AI lifecycle—data ingestion, training, fine-tuning, model management, inference, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure.
- Ensure protection against advanced AI threats including data poisoning, model theft, prompt injection, inference attacks, agent misuse, hallucination exploitation, and supply-chain compromise.
- Drive adoption of secure reference architectures, reusable components, and hardened AI pipelines across delivery teams.
- Embed security controls into CI/CD, MLOps, and LLMOps pipelines to enable scale without friction.
- Partner with cyber security and IR teams on AI-related incident preparedness, response, and post-incident improvements
- Client Advisory & External Engagement
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and clients on secure AI architecture, risk posture, and regulatory readiness.
- Lead or support AI security reviews, architecture assessments, and risk discussions for strategic clients.
- Build strong internal capability in secure AI engineering and adversarial ML awareness. solutions etc.
Qualifications
Masters DegBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field
10–15+ years of experience in cyber security, secure architecture, or platform engineering, with 3+ years focused on Agentic, AI/ML or GenAI environments
Strong hands-on understanding of cloud-based AI platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP or equivalent)
Experience or strong working knowledge of AI governance, privacy, and MLOps/LLMOps tooling (e.g., Credo.ai, Priva Sapien, model registries and monitoring tools)
Deep knowledge of Secure AI & adversarial ML, Privacy-by-design and data protection, Secure MLOps / LLMOps practices
Familiarity with frameworks and regulations such as NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC standards, Emerging global AI regulations (US, EU, sector-specific)
Experience supporting clients in highly regulated industries strongly preferred (preferred) 14 Years
EXL is the indispensable partner for leading businesses in data-led industries such as insurance, banking and financial services, healthcare, retail and logistics. We bring a unique combination of data, advanced analytics, digital technology and industry expertise to help our clients turn data into insights, streamline operations, improve customer experience, and transform their business. Our partnerships with clients are built on a foundation of collaboration – and we’ve been chosen as a partner by nine of the top ten leading US insurance companies, nine of the top 20 global banks, and six of the top ten US health care payers. We function as one team to make your goals our goals, whether that’s unlocking the value of generative AI or embedding analytics into workflows that reduce risk or power your growth. Clients choose EXL as their transformation partner for many reasons. Our geographic diversity make talent all over the world instantly accessible. Digital accelerators enable unmatched speed-to-value, letting you realize results fast. It’s our people that truly set us apart, though, including the 1,500 data scientists we have dedicated to our generative AI practice. And our more than twenty years of experience in delivering business services, garnering stellar client references, and maintaining a solid balance sheet are reassuring to our C-suite clients. Find out for yourself why clients, employees, and analysts think we’re some of the best in the business. Contact us to see how we can help you achieve your goals.
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