Software Engineer, AI Security

The Software Engineer, AI Security is a hands-on engineering role within Amazon Security focused on building and maintaining a vulnerability auditing and review platform for AI-enabled software. The position emphasizes end-to-end development, operation, and security of software that identifies and mitigates risks in AI-integrated applications.

Location

New York, NY onsite

Compensation

USD 143,700 - 213,800 per year

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and deliver security oriented features for the vulnerability auditing and review platform; design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain them.
• Enhance vulnerability detection capabilities for LLM integrated services and tools, including foundational models, MCP servers, agents, and agent skills and capabilities.
• Provide end-to-end feature delivery, translating customer requirements into production-ready software and ongoing operations.
• Refactor or deprecate legacy components to ensure long term maintainability and extensibility of the platform.
• Develop automated scanning and analysis tooling to identify security vulnerabilities in AI integrated software components.
• Implement detectors for adversarial attacks, prompt injection, capability boundary violations, and other LLM specific threat vectors.
• Collaborate with applied scientists to translate AI safety research into production grade platform features.
• Apply secure coding practices and threat modeling across all platform components.
• Own the operational health of your features — monitor, alert, triage, and resolve production issues.
• Identify root causes of operational failures and implement lasting fixes; pursue continuous improvements.
• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance the team’s operational posture through automation, runbooks, telemetry, and dashboards.
• Balance priorities between new feature development and operational enhancements.
• Design software solutions that bring clarity to complex problems with visible risks or roadblocks.
• Actively participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to engineers at all levels.
• Document platform architecture, testing, operation, and security practices and its role within the AI safety ecosystem.
• Keep skills current by evaluating and applying relevant innovations in security, AI safety, and software engineering.
• Mentor SDE I and new team members to accelerate productivity and growth.
• Train new teammates on platform architecture, operational practices, and team norms.
• Contribute to hiring through interviews, candidate assessments, and raising the bar.
• Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, and peers—including applied scientists—to ensure the platform delivers meaningful value and addresses the right problems.
• Resolve disagreements with peers through constructive and inclusive dialogue.
• Communicate effectively about status, risks, tradeoffs, and outcomes of your work.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• At least 2 years of design or architecture experience for new and existing systems, focusing on design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
• At least 1 year of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications and services using one or more of C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• At least 1 year of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Three or more years of experience in the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.

Technologies

• C
• C++
• Java
• Perl
• MCP servers

Benefits

• Health insurance covering medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs, Basic Life and AD&D, with options for supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) with company matching.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.