Senior AI Engineer, Security Infrastructure

Job overview

The Senior AI Engineer, Security Infrastructure role is available onsite in Arlington, VA, or Pittsburgh, PA, and remotely for candidates outside those cities; compensation is not specified. Air's mission is to establish readiness as a continuously achieved condition through its AI-native platform for government agencies and industrial suppliers. The role may require up to 25% travel. The engineer researches threats to agentic AI systems and turns findings into security evaluations, mitigations, and infrastructure controls, helping the Agentic AI team deploy secure AI capabilities in adversarial environments.

What you'll do

• Research AI red teaming and adversarial testing
• threat-model agentic architectures
• design adversarial evaluations
• build automated security evaluation frameworks
• translate findings into mitigations and security controls
• design secure agent execution environments and access boundaries
• build and harden sandboxing
• operate production infrastructure
• implement identity, secrets, network, and container controls
• improve observability
• investigate production and security failures
• and optimize performance, reliability, and cost.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior ai engineer

ai security

security infrastructure

agentic ai

ai red teaming

adversarial testing

kubernetes

aws

u.s. citizenship required

arlington va

pittsburgh pa

remote outside listed cities

up to 25% travel

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

U.S. citizenship is required. The role may be based in Arlington, VA, or Pittsburgh, PA, or remotely outside those cities, and may require up to 25% travel.

About the employer

Air is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.