AI Security Engineer

Dellent is a consulting company focused in System Information and Telecommunications. Our goal is to help our candidates and consultants to take a step forward in their careers through projects that meet their needs and expectations.

If you enjoy the thrill of the challenges that Digital Transformation and Energy Transition bring to companies, this project may be interesting to you. Here you will be able to work with the development of personalized services and end-to-end solutions.

We are looking for an AI Security Engineer for a long term role in this remote project in Portugal.

Requirements

• 7+ years in IT and cyber security, with at least some of that in transformation, digital or platform contexts;
• Solid technical grounding in cloud security, identity and access management, application security and secure SDLC;
• Working knowledge of AI/ML and Agentic AI security: prompt injection, data leakage, agent identity, tool-use risk, model supply chain. Familiarity with OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS and NIST AI RMF;
• Experienced with threat modeling, risk assessment and security architecture for distributed systems;
• Fluent English; an additional European language is a plus;
• Willing to go to the office 1/2 times per month;

Responsibilities

• Ensure that AI use cases, agents, and supporting platform components are built and operated securely by design and in line with the security framework;
• Work hands-on with AI product, engineering, and platform teams to translate central security requirements into practical technical controls, implementation patterns, evidence, and delivery guardrails;
• Work close to delivery, while maintaining a dotted line to Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) department to ensure alignment with client standards, security architecture principles, and control expectations;
• Work closely with the Group AI leadership team, the Agentic Platform team, Group CISO, the Data Protection Office, and country IT and security leads;
• Embed security by design across AI use cases, agents, and platform integrations, with strong controls for access, secrets, logging, monitoring, sandboxing, tool and API restrictions, and external integrations;
• Translate group security policies and architecture into practical controls, reusable patterns, and guidance for AIteams, ensuring alignment with risk, third-party, supplier, and operational requirements;
• Prepare security-gate evidence, drive remediation from reviews, and escalate unresolved control gaps, deviations, or delivery risks;
• Address AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool use, excessive permissions, and weak auditability through hardening and secure deployment patterns;
• Strengthen AI incident readiness through detection, logging, response scenarios, playbooks, exercises, and close collaboration with SOC and central security teams;

What you can expect from us

• Health insurance;
• A personalized training plan, with a budget to spend on the training you find necessary;
• Constant feedback so you can grow professionally;
• Remote onboarding process;
• Team events every semester so you can live new adventures;
• Exclusive discounts and offers from our partners;
• Culture of proximity and transparency. Your ideas and needs are heard and valued by us!