AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
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AI Security Senior Consultant – Managers must be experienced in securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) systems, including but not limited to agentic AI architectures, model security, prompt and data protections, threat modeling for emerging AI risks, and resilient AI deployments. Managers lead diverse teams of consultants with varying skills to meet and exceed client expectations through scoped engagements. This role will lead multiple client engagements (including AI security assessments and secure AI architecture designs) or support larger-sized client engagements. Senior Consultant – Managers contribute to client delivery by executing the necessary technical or process-focused tasks, producing high-quality security and architectural artifacts, and presenting findings and recommendations throughout an engagement. This role may be assigned a Project Coordinator role to ensure delivery engagements adhere to the associated timeline, support project reporting requirements, and maintain alignment to the intended objectives. Senior Consultant – Managers are the primary leaders of security delivery teams responsible for assessments, designs, and operational documentation for AI systems.
Managers also support business development activities alongside a sales specialist to help qualify client needs and expectations, particularly where AI security architecture must be evaluated. They may be directly engaged in client-facing interactions to assess current-state AI environments, articulate future-state secure AI architectures, produce and/or present sales proposals, or support client-visioning workshops.
Lastly, Senior Consultant – Managers use their visibility and experience to contribute to the continuous improvement and maturation of in-practice service offerings and capabilities. This includes influencing AI security standards, design patterns, and approaches, as well as positively impacting the service portfolio and individuals on the team through thought leadership and mentorship.
AI Security Specifics
- Lead AI security assessments of clients including requesting and analyzing evidence of AI program maturity, model governance, data handling practices, deployment configurations, runtime environments, and access controls for AI systems.
- Write consistent, detailed observations and practical recommendations based on risk to AI programs, including threats like prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, or adversarial attacks.
- Draft detailed secure architecture designs including key AI security controls (e.g., sandboxing, runtime policy enforcement, isolation techniques, secure MLOps pipelines).
- Proactively advise clients on secure AI deployment principles including but not limited to network segmentation, least privilege access for agents/models, defense-in-depth, and isolation from production environments.
Client Delivery
- Facilitate strategy, roadmap, design, and planning workshops for small to medium-sized engagements, anchoring discussions in AI security principles, patterns, and measurable outcomes.
- Ensure customer expectations are appropriately set and managed.
- Drive and manage objectives, requirements gathering, project tasks and milestones, project status, dependencies, and timelines to ensure successful, on-time delivery aligned to business objectives.
- Lead or contribute to solution architecture and design discussions, including the development of secure, isolated, and resilient AI architectures that support clients’ innovation, safety, and responsible AI objectives.
- Consult on solution designs that employ strong security controls, constrained trust boundaries, restricted access models, and operational separation for AI workloads.
- Create and finalize project deliverables, to include peer review for collateral developed by others on a delivery team.
- Present deliverables to client executive management.
- Apply knowledge of project lifecycle management activities to effectively support delivery engagements throughout the duration of a project.
Business Development
- Support business development pursuits through client discovery meetings.
- Represent service offerings during the sales cycle, including project scoping, proposal development, and presenting proposals to clients.
- Provide consultative input during sales cycles related to secure AI architecture, risk mitigation strategies, and solution feasibility.
- Apply knowledge of sales management lifecycle to effectively support sales opportunities throughout the duration of a proposal.
- Assist Principal Consultants and Sales Specialists with engagement scoping and the creation of proposal collateral.
Practice Development & Thought Leadership
- Maintain subject matter expertise in AI-related security solutions/technologies and have flexibility to aid in general security advising (governance, risk, compliance, and application security).
- Participate in the development, enhancement, and standardization of in-practice service offerings, primarily services related to AI security, application security, and governance.
- Maintain a broad knowledge and understanding of current and future state AI trends, technologies, and standards.
- Lend support and mentorship to junior consultants and peers.
People Leadership
- In addition to leading multiple projects, Managers will have direct reports and be responsible for annual reviews, ongoing mentoring, and guidance. (If people and project management are not desired, this role can be transferred to a “Senior Technical Consultant” position where management responsibilities are traded for more white paper / internal marketing development activities.)
Qualifications
- Undergraduate technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT Management, Cybersecurity, or related field preferred, but not required.
- Minimum of 7 years professional, relevant experience, with at least 2 years in people / project management.
- 2 – 3 professional and/or technical certifications, including industry-recognized certifications which align to AI security, cloud security, or application security (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, OSCP, or AI-specific equivalents).
- Demonstrated experience consulting on secure architecture and/or solution design within complex enterprise environments, preferably including AI/ML systems.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++), with a track record of shipping secure services.
- Deep expertise in modern isolation techniques (e.g., container security, kernel hardening, sandboxing) and cloud security on major providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Familiarity with AI/ML security challenges and mitigations (e.g., prompt injection, model inversion, adversarial robustness).
- Experience in performing and advising on application security.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills (must be highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite).
- Comfortable addressing groups of people in virtual or in-person settings.
- Ability to solve complex, abstract problems.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, good listener, ability to connect with different personalities.
$160,000 – $200,000 a year
The compensation range indicated in this posting reflects the On-Target Earnings (“OTE”) for this role, which includes a base salary and any applicable target bonus amount. This OTE range may vary based on the candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, and geographic location.
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
USA Employment Benefits include:
– Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
– 401(k)
– Paid company holidays
– Paid time off
– Paid parental and caregiver leave
– Plus more! See benefits https://www.aheadbenefits.com/ for additional details.
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