Who We Are
At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.
So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.
The Role
Kyndryl's Security & Resiliency practice helps clients anticipate, protect against, withstand, and recover from cyber threats and operational disruption.
We bring together deep technical expertise, modern platforms, and a culture of continuous learning to build secure and resilient environments.
At Kyndryl, curiosity, collaboration, and customer focus are central to how we work.
We invest in skills and give people opportunities to learn, contribute, and grow.
The Role
Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities.
This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate them into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.
What You Will Do
- Design, develop, test, and deploy controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
- Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
- Implement identity, authorization, secrets, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
- Perform AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
- Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
- Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
- Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
10 or more years of experience in security engineering, application security, product security, cloud security, software engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security, logging, monitoring, and secure development controls.
Experience implementing technical controls that are unique to the evolving AI risk landscape.
Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD.
Ability to conduct threat modeling and convert findings into working engineering solutions.
Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing or securing generative AI applications, agents, copilots, or machine learning platforms.
- Experience with AI gateways, model routing, RAG, vector databases, orchestration, MCP, or model-serving platforms.
- Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial testing, prompt injection defenses, or automated control validation.
- Relevant security, cloud, application security, or AI engineering certifications.
Compensation
The base compensation range for the position in the U.
S. is - $179,760 to $341,520 based on a full-time schedule reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Kyndryl, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting.
Your actual compensation may vary depending on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, geography, relevant job-related skills, education and experience, certification and licenses, internal pay equity, and market and business consideration.
The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement.
Work Locations
There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:
California (San Francisco Bay Area): $215,640 to $409,800
California (All Other): $197,640 to $375,600
Colorado: $179,760 to $341,520
Massachusetts/ Virginia: $179,760 to $375,600
New York City: $215,640 to $409,800
Washington: $197,600 to $375,600
Washington DC: $197,640 to $375,600.
Bonus and Benefits
This position will be eligible for Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl's applicable plans.
You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Being You
Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are.
We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences.
What You Can Expect
With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value.
Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey.