Staff AI Security Engineer - Architecture & Application Security
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Posted: 11/11/2026
- Competitive
- UAE - Hybrid
- Permanent
***UAE | Staff Level | Paid Relocation
AI is transforming financial services, and securing that transformation is becoming more important than ever.
We're looking for an exceptional Staff AI Security Engineer to play a key role in shaping and strengthening AI security within an ambitious digital banking environment.
This is a rare opportunity to take genuine technical ownership, work on advanced AI security challenges, and help build the next generation of security capabilities.
The Role
Design the security foundations behind the next generation of AI.
Take the lead in defining how AI platforms, LLM applications and autonomous agents are secured, from architecture and threat modelling through to building and implementing security controls.
What you'll be doing:
- Define AI security architecture, standards, threat models and security guardrails.
- Build advanced controls covering model gateways, prompt injection defence, output filtering and security logging.
- Secure AI applications, agents, identities, permissions and data.
- Drive security automation, pipeline checks and AI threat detection.
What we're looking for:
- 10+ years in security engineering or application security, including 3+ years securing production LLM and AI agent systems.
- Strong hands-on Python or TypeScript development experience.
- Expertise in Azure, identity and API security, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and MITRE ATLAS.
- Work on advanced AI security capabilities within financial technology.
- Take genuine technical ownership and build security solutions from the ground up.
- Collaborate with highly skilled security and engineering teams.
- Make a direct impact on protecting critical financial infrastructure.
- Paid relocation to the UAE for successful candidates.
If you specialise in AI Security Architecture, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply directly through this advert or contact Andrew at andrew@axiomrecruit.com for a confidential discussion.
Andrew Phillips
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