Agent Security Engineer

Job overview

The Agent Security Engineer role is listed onsite in Texas City, TX. Compensation is not specified. Belmont Lavan is hiring for work that secures autonomous AI agents before and after production deployment. The engineer works between AI engineering and security to design guardrails, test agent systems through hands-on attacks, and build governance controls. The goal is to help the business deploy agents with confidence while addressing identity, least-privilege access, monitoring, and testing.

What you'll do

• Design security guardrails for autonomous AI agents
• test agent systems using hands-on attack techniques
• build governance controls
• address identity, least-privilege access, monitoring, and testing
• communicate AI risk to engineers, risk teams, and executives.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

agent security engineer

ai agent security

llm security

prompt injection

cloud security

identity and access management

python

texas city tx

belmont lavan

oauth 2.0

mcp

full-time

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Focus on securing LLM and agent-based systems, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool-based data exfiltration, and RAG poisoning; experience with identity controls, cloud security, and agent frameworks is sought.

About the employer

Belmont Lavan Ltd is hiring for this role. Industry: Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services. Sector: 54.