# AI Security Architect **Company**: Qualtrics **Location**: Seattle, Washington **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $145,000-$176,500 USD **Category**: Security **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualtrics/jobs/8108875?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_dfc6acd8-daa ## Description At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform,we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. AI systems face threats that traditional security architecture wasn't built for: adversarial manipulation, model theft, data poisoning, prompt injection, and supply-chain risk across the ML pipeline. The AI Security Architect leads the design and implementation of security frameworks that protect our AI systems , building resilience against these threats and earning our customers' trust. **How You’ll Find Success** - Strategic Visionary: You hold a holistic view of AI/ML threat models, proactively identifying and mitigating emerging risks. You guide security architecture strategy so it aligns with the organization’s risk posture and business goals. - Technical Innovator: Your drive for continuous improvement pushes you to explore and implement cutting-edge AI security practices , adversarial robustness testing, model hardening, secure MLOps , keeping our AI systems resilient against evolving threats. - Collaborative Leader: You build partnerships across security, engineering, and data science, promoting best practices in AI security. Your ability to foster collaboration creates an informed, cohesive environment dedicated to protecting our systems. - Resilient and Adaptive: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing complex projects while guiding cross-functional teams through shifts in the threat landscape or technology. **Things You’ll Do** - Drive Innovation in AI Security: Lead research, evaluation, and implementation of next-generation security technologies and methodologies , adversarial defense, model security, secure MLOps pipelines , that support our AI solutions. - Conduct Security Reviews: Perform security reviews of AI products and proposed designs, including architectures built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic AI systems, identifying risks such as tool-use abuse, unauthorized action-taking, and insecure agent-to-agent or agent to-tool communication. - Develop Standards & Reference Architectures: Author AI-related technical security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures that give product and engineering teams a secure, repeatable blueprint for building and deploying AI systems. - Shape Security Strategy: Develop a comprehensive AI security strategy that aligns with the organization’s risk profile and business objectives. - Manage Complex Projects: Oversee execution of large-scale AI security initiatives, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while proactively addressing risks and fostering adaptability within teams. - Foster a Culture of Excellence: Create an environment that promotes knowledge sharing, collaboration, and continuous learning. Mentor colleagues to build a high-performing team committed to our security objectives. **What We’re Looking For On Your Resume** - Extensive Architectural Expertise: 5+ years of experience in AI/ML security, cybersecurity architecture, or a related field, with a proven history of designing secure architectures for AI systems; capable of leading strategic initiatives to strengthen security posture. - Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of AI/ML security adversarial machine learning, model security, threat modeling, secure MLOps , and familiarity with encryption and secure system design. - Demonstrated Initiative Leadership: Proven experience leading large scale AI security initiatives, coordinating cross-functional teams to align with security guidelines while driving operational efficiency and business growth. - Strategic Mindset: Ability to translate AI security challenges into actionable solutions that integrate with business objectives and risk management frameworks. - Collaboration & Communication Skills: Excellent communication abilities to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering constructive partnerships across the organization. **Our Team’s Favorite Perks and Benefits** - Wellness Reimbursement for $300 per quarter for wellness activities including gym memberships, spa massages, workout equipment, meditation apps, and much more. - Amazing QGroup Communities; MOSAIQ, Green Team, Qualtrics Pride, Q&Able, Qualtrics Salute, and Women’s Leadership Development, which exist as places for support, allyship, and advocacy. - The Qualtrics Hybrid Work Model: Our hybrid work model is elegantly simple: we all gather in the office three days a week; Mondays and Thursdays, plus one day selected by your organizational leader. ## Skills ### Required - AI/ML security - cybersecurity architecture - adversarial machine learning - model security - threat modeling - secure MLOps --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/qualtrics/jobs/8108875?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)