Senior Manager – AI Threat Modelling

EXL

. Lead AI threat modeling initiatives across enterprise and client‑facing Agentic and AI solutions, including traditional ML, GenAI, LLMs, and agentic AI systems.

Posted 4/21/2026full-time🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud Platform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead AI threat modeling initiatives across enterprise and client‑facing Agentic and AI solutions, including traditional ML, GenAI, LLMs, and agentic AI systems.
Identify and assess threats across the AI stack—data pipelines, training processes, model artifacts, inference layers, APIs, integrations, and infrastructure.
Analyze risks such as data poisoning, model theft, prompt injection, inference attacks, hallucination exploitation, supply‑chain compromise, and misuse/abuse scenarios.
Develop and maintain AI‑specific threat models, abuse cases, and attack scenarios tailored to different client industries and deployment models.
Embed threat modeling into the AI solution lifecycle, from design and build through deployment, scaling, and ongoing monitoring.
Partner with engineering, data science, cloud, and platform teams to define security requirements, control recommendations, and architectural guardrails.
Support client engagements, including security reviews, architecture assessments, and risk discussions related to AI solutions.
Contribute to secure AI reference architectures, standards, and reusable patterns for enterprise and client delivery teams.
Support AI security incident analysis, lessons‑learned exercises, and control improvements where applicable.
Stay current on emerging AI threat vectors, adversarial techniques, and industry research, translating insights into practical guidance for delivery teams and clients.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field
8+ years of overall experience in cyber security, secure architecture, or threat modeling roles with minimum 2 years’ experience in AI specific threat modelling
Hands‑on experience securing cloud‑based AI solutions (Azure, AWS, GCP, or equivalent)
Strong understanding of AI security, adversarial ML, data protection, and privacy‑by‑design principles
Familiarity with global frameworks and standards such as NIST AI RMF, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC security standards, and emerging AI regulations
Experience working with clients across highly regulated industries such as Insurance, Banking, Healthcare preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks

EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process and has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates. EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL’s Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI threat modelingmachine learninggenerative AIlarge language modelsdata protectionadversarial machine learningthreat assessmentrisk analysiscloud securitysecure architecture

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingclient engagementrisk managementadaptabilityleadershipstrategic thinkingattention to detail

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer ScienceCyber Security certificationAI/ML certificationData Science certification