About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. We act as trusted technical advisors and thought partners for customers, working side by side with their teams to identify high-value use cases, design practical architectures, and move from prototype to durable deployment. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent domains where AI can help. Security teams are under pressure to reason across code, logs, infrastructure, tickets, alerts, and vulnerability data faster than ever. As frontier models become more capable, organizations need deep technical guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and safely deploy AI systems in security-critical workflows. About the Role We are looking for an Applied AI Engineer, Cyber to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move fluidly between executive strategy, practitioner-level cyber depth, and hands-on solution design. You will help customers evaluate and deploy workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC and incident response workflows, detection engineering, cloud security, GRC automation, and security validation. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns, reusable field assets, and product feedback. This role is based in our Singapore office. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflow
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Lead Engineers at Thoughtworks act as trusted technical leaders and security advisors who align enterprise risk and executive strategy with modern software delivery, ensuring security measures enhance organizational objectives. In this role, you bring a strategic and proactive mindset to client engagements, guiding delivery teams in embedding security directly into the software development lifecycle, platform architecture, and cloud environments. You balance high-level security architecture with hands-on engineering, conducting threat modeling, establishing DevSecOps practices, and following a pragmatic and robust approach to risk management. As a technical leader, you guide and coach cross-functional teams, cultivate security awareness across accounts, and navigate complex stakeholder environments to build resilient, trustworthy software solutions. Due to the nature of the projects
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Professional Skills You bring 7+ years of experience in information security engineering, application security, or cloud security within fast-paced software delivery environments
Department · 1S TWSGP DEC Region
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Thoughtworks
We’re a global technology consultancy delivering extraordinary impact through industry-leading practices, blending design, engineering and AI expertise
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