Security Engineer, Security Verification & Validation Team
Core
Lead complex end-to-end security testing engagements for high-consequence risks in AWS's globally distributed cloud environment, focusing on expert reasoning where automation is insufficient.
Role type
Senior Security Engineer (Offensive Testing & Adversarial AI)
Builds
Reusable security mechanisms, harnesses for AI-augmented pentesting, and documented methodologies for the broader team.
Domain
Cloud Security / Adversarial AI / Penetration Testing
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Offensive web application testing, source code review, AWS services expertise (S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM), cryptography, secure architecture design, adversarial reasoning, AI system testing, automation scripting, risk assessment
Preferred skills
Experience with agentic AI systems, building fuzzers and detection rules, mentoring engineers
Technologies
AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2, KMS, IAM), AI/ML frameworks, custom security harnesses, fuzzers
Responsibilities
Lead complex security testing engagements end-to-end across microservice architectures; perform penetration testing and AI-augmented source code review; demonstrate issues or rule out attack paths with evidence; trace attack paths across chained components; assess business impact of ambiguous risks; build automation to tune AI pentest bots; test agentic AI systems as an adversary; leave reusable security mechanisms behind; peer review test plans and reports; onboard and mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC