Location: United States – Remote Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Salary Range: 152K - 184K LTS is seeking a highly skilled Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer to ensure our AI systems are secure, trustworthy, resilient, and governed responsibly. You'll design safeguards that protect AI agents, retrieval pipelines, prompts, tools, memory, and model interactions from misuse while ensuring every AI response remains explainable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements. This role focuses on securing AI systems, not simply securing infrastructure. The Agentic AI platform is designed to help engineers understand, analyze, and modernize one of the most consequential legacy software systems still operating today. Our platform enables engineers to ask questions in plain English and receive explainable, verifiable answers traced directly back to decades of production source code. Rather than replacing engineers, we're building AI that accelerates engineering through transparency, traceability, and intelligent reasoning. We're building an AI-native engineering platform supporting the modernization of mission-critical healthcare systems serving millions of Veterans nationwide. The platform is designed for deployment across federal enterprise environments and is being engineered to align with FedRAMP security controls, Zero Trust principles, and federal compliance requirements. You'll work alongside AI architects, software engineers, platform engineers, cybersecurity engineers, and product leaders to embed AI security into every stage of development from experimentation through production deployment. We’re building an AI platform where security, transparency, and trust are foundational, not afterthoughts. What You’ll Do: Secure Agentic AI Systems Design and implement security controls for autonomous and multi-agent AI systems. Secure agent orchestration, tool execution, memory, and external integrations. Identify and mi
Senior AI Information Security Engineer
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Job description
Who is Tenable? Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. Over 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500, 50 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey! What makes Tenable such a great place to work? Ask a member of our team and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together! Applicants m
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Qualification
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related field preferred; advanced degree preferred; And Ideally: Hands-on experience with AI red teaming, adversarial prompt testing, or LLM security assessments; Familiarity of AI security frameworks and standards, including OWASP LLM Top 10 and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Department · Information Security Engineering

Hiring company
Tenable, Inc.
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