Hire an AI Security Engineer
Keeps prompts, data, tools, and agents inside the lines, and provably so.
Secures the new attack surface AI creates: prompt injection, data exfiltration through context, tool misuse, model access governance, and the audit trail your enterprise buyers will demand.
30-minute fit call with an engineering lead. No hard sell, no deposit, and no change to the published rates.
What they own: concrete deliverables, not job-description poetry.
Prompt injection defense
Layered controls for direct and indirect injection, tested adversarially.
Data boundary enforcement
PII and secrets kept out of prompts, logs, embeddings, and fine-tunes.
Tool-use security
Least-privilege permissions and sandboxing for anything an agent can touch.
AI red teaming
Structured attacks on your own system before someone else runs them.
Access governance
Who can call which model with which data — enforced, logged, reviewable.
Compliance evidence
SOC 2 / ISO / EU AI Act-ready documentation of your AI controls.
When to hire a AI Security Engineer, and what week one proves.
- ●An enterprise deal just asked how you secure your AI features
- ●Agents can call tools and nobody wrote down which ones
- ●Customer data flows into prompts and nobody has mapped where it goes
- 01Threat-modeled your highest-risk AI path
- 02Ran a first injection and exfiltration test suite
- 03Locked down the scariest tool permission
- 04Drafted the controls doc your buyers keep asking for
- ✓Security answers that close enterprise deals
- ✓Agents with least-privilege, audited tool access
- ✓Injection attempts that fail and get logged
- ✓AI features your CISO stops worrying about
From role brief to production evidence.
You are not buying a resume. You are choosing a specific engineer, then testing the match on committed work before making a longer decision.
- 01
Map the real gap
A 30-minute call with an engineering lead defines what the AI Security Engineer must own, the stack they inherit, and the evidence that will count as a successful trial.
- 02
Review matched profiles
Within 48 hours, you receive 2–3 role-matched profiles. Review work history, technical evidence, certifications, and availability before choosing whom to interview.
- 03
Interview against the work
We help turn your current failure cases into practical interview scenarios. You choose the engineer; no profile moves forward without your approval.
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Prove fit in one paid week
The engineer works in your repo or approved data environment. You judge real output, communication, and technical decisions before any month-to-month continuation.
No deposit, no unpaid test project, and no long-term contract required. Trial work is paid at the published rate and belongs to you.
Pick the level, keep the senior oversight.
- ✓Executes scoped work inside AI-accelerated workflows
- ✓Every line reviewed by a senior lead before merge
- ✓Ideal for well-defined backlogs and support capacity
- ✓Owns architecture, tradeoffs, and production readiness
- ✓Mentors your team and raises the local security bar
- ✓Ideal for greenfield systems and high-stakes paths
Dedicated engineers are billed monthly; Time & Material is billed hourly on tracked actuals. The paid one-week trial applies to every dedicated hire.
Most teams add a second seat once the first proves out.
What teams ask before they shortlist.
Comparing multiple engineering seats? Browse all 9 dedicated AI & data roles or book a 30-minute fit call to map the right boundary.
What does an AI Security Engineer own?
Secures the new attack surface AI creates: prompt injection, data exfiltration through context, tool misuse, model access governance, and the audit trail your enterprise buyers will demand. The role is accountable for concrete production deliverables including prompt injection defense, data boundary enforcement, and tool-use security. The trial scope names the output, reviewer, and acceptance evidence before work starts.
How do I know whether we need an AI Security Engineer?
This role is usually the right hire when an enterprise deal just asked how you secure your AI features; agents can call tools and nobody wrote down which ones; or customer data flows into prompts and nobody has mapped where it goes. On the matching call, an engineering lead checks the boundary against adjacent roles so you do not hire an impressive title for the wrong bottleneck.
How do you verify AI Security Engineer skills?
Profiles show relevant work history, technical interview evidence, role-specific capabilities, and meaningful certifications where they exist. We then help you interview against your own architecture and failure cases. The final check is a paid one-week trial in your repo or approved data environment, not a generic coding puzzle.
What should the paid one-week trial produce?
The trial is scoped around committed work your team already needs. For this role, a useful first week includes threat-modeling your highest-risk AI path; running a first injection and exfiltration test suite; locking down the scariest tool permission; and drafting the controls doc your buyers keep asking for. You keep the work whether or not the engagement continues.
What does it cost to hire an AI Security Engineer?
Published dedicated rates start at $4,500 per month, or $28 per hour for Time & Material work. Senior rates are $8,000 per month or $50 per hour. The trial is paid at the same published rate, with no deposit or conversion fee.
What happens if the engineer is not the right fit?
You can stop after the paid trial or request a free replacement during the engagement. Work continues month to month with no long-term lock-in. NDA and IP assignment are completed before onboarding, access is scoped to the work, and everything produced belongs to you.
Role-specific hiring & engineering playbooks for AI Security Engineers.
10 Red-Teaming Probes Every Enterprise AI Agent Must Survive Before Launch
9 Security Controls for Internal Enterprise Coding Agents
AI Red Teaming: Break Your AI System Before Attackers Do
AI Audit Logging: The Record a Regulator Can Use
Agent Guardrails: Limits First, Approval Gates Second
AI Guardrails: Guide-Rails, Not a Wall
Interview an AI Security Engineer this week.
Bring your stack, your failure cases, and your constraints. We'll send 2–3 vetted profiles within 48 hours, then use the paid one-week trial to prove fit in your environment.
30-minute fit call · No hard sell, no deposit, and no unpaid test project · NDA before onboarding · Free replacement · No lock-in