AI Security Engineer

Description

Summary: Join Axians as an AI Security Engineer to embed security by design across AI use cases and platforms for an international logistics project. Highlights: 1. Work hands-on with AI product, engineering, and platform teams. 2. Strengthen AI incident readiness through detection and response. 3. Embed security by design across AI use cases, agents, and platform. **At Axians, we value talent, not labels.** We believe in a culture of inclusion, where everyone has a place and all applications are considered based on merit, *without discrimination.* This is your opportunity to join an international group with a project that needs you to help meet the challenges of digital transformation. **THE ROLE** We are looking for a \#TechTalent to work as a**AI Security Engineer**for an international project in the logistic sector. **WHAT YOU'LL DO** * As AI Security Engineer, you are the first line security engineering role within the Central AI team / AI Hubs. * Ensure that AI use cases, agents, and supporting platform components are built and operated securely by design and in line with the security framework. * Work hands\-on with AI product, engineering, and platform teams to translate central security requirements into practical technical controls, implementation patterns, evidence, and delivery guardrails. * Work close to delivery, while maintaining a dotted line to Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) department to ensure alignment with client standards, security architecture principles, and control expectations. * Work closely with the Group AI leadership team, the Agentic Platform team, Group CISO, the Data Protection Office, and country IT and security leads. * Embed security by design across AI use cases, agents, and platform integrations, with strong controls for access, secrets, logging, monitoring, sandboxing, tool and API restrictions, and external integrations; * Translate group security policies and architecture into practical controls, reusable patterns, and guidance for AIteams, ensuring alignment with risk, third\-party, supplier, and operational requirements; * Prepare security\-gate evidence, drive remediation from reviews, and escalate unresolved control gaps, deviations, or delivery risks; * Address AI\-specific risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool use, excessive permissions, and weak auditability through hardening and secure deployment patterns; * Support due diligence and secure implementation for external AI vendors, models, orchestration components, and APIs, with the right safeguards for data protection and segregation; * Strengthen AI incident readiness through detection, logging, response scenarios, playbooks, exercises, and close collaboration with SOC and central security teams; * Scale secure AI delivery through reusable patterns, stronger hub capability, and lessons shared back into the groupwide security model. **WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR** * 7\+ years in IT and cyber security, with at least some of that in transformation, digital or platform contexts; * Solid technical grounding in cloud security, identity and access management, application security and secure SDLC; * Working knowledge of AI/ML and Agentic AI security: prompt injection, data leakage, agent identity, tool\-use risk, model supply chain. Familiarity with OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS and NIST AI RMF; * Experienced with threat modeling, risk assessment and security architecture for distributed systems; * Strong stakeholder management; able to challenge solution designs constructively and influence without full hierarchical authority; * Fluent English; an additional European language is a plus. **WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US** **Stable professional career** Working with Axians projects becomes an asset to those of us who want to offer stability through a secure career. **Prospects for career advancement** You can access training and new certifications that will further elevate your skills. The 360° evaluation from managers and peers will also allow you to evolve. **Work Life Balance** By collaborating with Axians, you will be able to reconcile work and family requirements without neglecting either area. **Attractive, evolving compensation** When working with Axians, you will have access to performance bonuses in addition to an attractive salary pack (base salary \+ benefits). You are also entitled to health insurance and an employee assistance program for you and your family (Psychological, Legal, Psychosocial, and Financial support). **Do you identify with this position?** If you think this position is the right fit for you and you have the \#TechTalent we are looking for, send us your resume, preferably in English, to recrutamento.axianspt@axians.com with the subject "AISE/SA/TD”.