Cloud and AI Security Engineer

Axos Business Center, Corp

About This Job

This is a pioneering role within the Cloud and AI Security team, created to address the rapidly evolving security challenges at the intersection of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. As a Cloud and AI Security Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the security framework for our AI/ML platforms, LLM-powered applications, and the cloud infrastructure on which they run.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive AI/ML security framework covering the full model lifecycle: data ingestion, training, deployment, inference, and retirement
• Assess and mitigate AI-specific threats: prompt injection, jailbreaking, adversarial attacks, model inversion, data poisoning, and training data exfiltration
• Lead security reviews of LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic Claude) and enforce appropriate guardrails
• Implement and govern Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) security: data access controls, context injection risks, and output monitoring
• Design security controls for AI agent and agentic workflow architectures — managing tool use, autonomy boundaries, and escalation paths
• Develop cloud security baselines across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP to support AI/ML workload protection (compute, storage, model registries, APIs)
• Perform threat modeling using MITRE ATLAS and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs for AI-powered applications across trading, fraud detection, and customer-facing services
• Contribute to AI governance policy: model risk management, bias/fairness security implications, explainability requirements, and regulatory alignment (SR 11-7, EU AI Act)
• Partner with red team and offensive security functions or vendors to conduct AI-specific adversarial testing exercises
• Implement monitoring and anomaly detection for AI system behavior: model drift indicators, unusual inference patterns, and data pipeline anomalies
• Maintain awareness of the rapidly evolving AI security landscape; advise leadership on emerging risks and mitigation strategies
• Contribute to the development of internal AI security standards, playbooks, and training materials

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of information security experience, including hands-on work in cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Demonstrable understanding of AI/ML concepts: model training pipelines, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG architectures, and AI agents
• Familiarity with AI security threat frameworks: MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF
• Proficiency in Python; experience with ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain) is a strong plus
• Experience securing APIs, containerized workloads, and microservices architectures in cloud environments
• Understanding of data privacy requirements in the context of AI training datasets (GDPR, CCPA)
• Strong written communication skills — ability to translate complex AI security risks for non-technical stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant cloud security certifications: AZ-500, AWS Security Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Experience with MLOps platforms: MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI
• Exposure to AI red-teaming methodologies and adversarial ML research
• Background in financial services, fintech, or another highly regulated industry
• Experience with LLM gateway security products (e.g., Portkey, LiteLLM, or similar)

About Axos

Born digital-first, Axos delivers financial tools and services that allow individuals, small businesses, and companies to access and manage their money how, when, and where they want. We’re a diverse team of dynamic, insightful, and independent innovators who are excited to provide technology-driven solutions that offer unbeatable value to our customers.

Axos Financial is our holding company and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "AX" (NYSE: AX).

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Pre-Employment Background Check, Medical, and Drug Test:

All offers are contingent upon the candidate successfully passing a credit check, criminal background check, and pre-employment medical and drug screening.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Axos is an Equal Opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex (including pregnancy, breast feeding and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military and veteran status, marital status, age, protected medical condition, genetic information, physical disability, mental disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

Job Functions and Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is required to sit for extended periods of time. Manual dexterity and coordination are required while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard and mouse, calculator, telephone, copiers, etc.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.