Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NRG is a Fortune 500 company focused on providing innovative energy solutions and customer-centric services. The Senior AI Security Engineer will implement and optimize AI solutions, ensuring cybersecurity practices are integrated into AI systems while supporting team members in leveraging AI technologies.
Responsibilities
- Improve internal cybersecurity use cases by implementing AI and conventional process automation
- Support cybersecurity team members in adopting and leveraging AI, both through personal coaching and hands-on implementation assistance
- Assist in defining, documenting, and implementing AI security standards, controls, and best practices
- Conduct security reviews for AI systems and help internal product teams align AI implementations with enterprise security requirements
- Develop and maintain dashboards to report key cybersecurity metrics and risk indicators
- Automate processes for data collection, analysis, and visualization
Skills
- Hands-on experience with AI systems, including building or working with AI agents, LLM-based applications, and automation workflows
- Experience working with APIs (REST, Graph-based, etc.) including integration, automation, and security considerations
- Experience working with structured and unstructured data (data pipelines, transformation, or analysis)
- Experience creating reports, dashboards, or visualizations (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools)
- Foundational understanding of cybersecurity principles, including application security, identity, and data protection
- Intermediate scripting or coding experience (e.g., Python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
- Familiarity with common AI and cybersecurity frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST CSF, OWASP)
- Understanding of modern software development and system architecture concepts
- Experience evaluating the security of generative AI systems
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their security models
- Familiarity with data security concepts such as data classification, encryption, and access controls
- Build and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships
- High level of self-awareness and social skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Take initiative and set high personal performance standards
- Ability to see the big picture and ensure actions and solutions solve the real problem
- Ability to understand and articulate tradeoffs between security and business outcomes
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to less-technical stakeholders
- Curiosity and adaptability in a rapidly evolving technology landscape
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritize and focus on high-impact work
- Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, or a related technical field
Benefits
- This role is eligible for in-office work at our Lehi, UT, Princeton, NJ, or Houston, TX locations, or fully remote for qualified candidates in other locations
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