
Senior AI Security Engineer II
6w1 month agoZip Co Limited
Melbourne, AU · Full-time · A$155,000 – A$195,000
About this role
As Senior AI Security Engineer II at Zip, you will shape how AI security is embedded across next-generation products, LLM applications and agentic workflows. The role focuses on protecting millions of customers and merchants through secure, responsible AI adoption at scale.
You will lead security reviews and threat modelling for AI-enabled products, RAG systems and AI APIs. Daily work includes identifying AI-specific threats such as prompt injection and model poisoning while designing controls like output validation and least-privilege access.
You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Data, Privacy, Legal and Risk teams to embed security by design. Hybrid flexibility allows team connection days in the Sydney or Melbourne offices while supporting MLOps and LLMOps practices.
This position offers the chance to contribute to AI governance frameworks and develop proactive security tooling. You will deliver guidance that strengthens understanding of AI risks and secure design across technical and non-technical teams.
Requirements
- Deep experience across AI security, application security, cloud security or security engineering with hands-on exposure to LLMs, RAG systems and AI APIs
- 5+ years experience across security engineering, application security, cloud security, product security, security architecture, penetration testing or red teaming
- Hands-on experience securing or reviewing AI/ML, LLM, RAG or agent-based systems
- Threat modelling capabilities with the ability to translate security risk into practical engineering outcomes
- Experience across web and API security, IAM, secrets management, secure SDLC, cloud security, logging, detection and incident response
- Programming experience with Python or another modern programming language
- Familiarity with LLM architectures, vector databases, embeddings, AI agents and modern AI data flows
- Exposure to frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS
Responsibilities
- Lead security reviews and threat modelling activities across AI-enabled products, LLM applications, RAG systems, agentic workflows and AI APIs
- Identify and assess AI-specific threats including prompt injection, model abuse, sensitive data disclosure and model or data poisoning risks
- Design and implement secure AI patterns including least-privilege access controls, output validation, audit logging and human approval workflows
- Partner with Engineering teams to embed AI security controls into SDLC, CI/CD, MLOps and LLMOps practices
- Contribute to AI governance frameworks, standards, policies and control mapping activities across the organisation
- Review third-party AI vendors, SaaS AI capabilities and model providers to support secure and compliant adoption
- Help develop AI security tooling, testing approaches and monitoring capabilities to reduce risk before production deployment
Benefits
- Hybrid working flexibility with team connection days in Sydney or Melbourne offices
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