Senior Cybersecurity Platform Engineer
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Design, implement, maintain, and improve security platforms and tools that protect the organization’s IT infrastructure.
- Optimize security technologies to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats in real time.
- Collaborate with engineering, IT, and security operations teams to deploy and support enterprise cybersecurity platforms and solutions.
- Secure in-house and public AI and ML/DL systems against cyber threats, adversarial attacks, and data breaches across the solution lifecycle.
- Design and implement robust security platforms supporting enterprise security needs (e.g., unified telemetry pipeline like BindPlane, SIEM like QRadar, SecOps, and AI security).
- Define and maintain guidelines and controls to secure AI systems, including data protection, model security, and compliance requirements.
- Apply established frameworks as references/baselines (e.g., Google Secure AI Framework (SAIF), NIST AI Risk Management Framework, Framework for AI Cybersecurity Practices (FAICP)).
- Identify, assess, and mitigate AI-specific security risks (adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, unauthorized access).
- Conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines.
- Ensure AI data is encrypted, anonymized, and securely stored.
- Implement access controls for sensitive AI data and models (RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust).
- Protect AI models from tampering, theft, and adversarial manipulation during training and deployment.
- Monitor and log AI system activity for anomalies and security incidents.
- Develop and enforce policies to align AI systems with industry regulations, ethical standards, and organizational governance requirements.
- Develop automated workflows and scripts to enhance security platform functionality and scalability, improving operational efficiency.
- Manage timely patching and upgrades to security tools and systems to reduce downtime and minimize vulnerabilities.
- Configure alerting systems for security threats and enable real-time monitoring for observability.
- Partner with incident response teams to identify, contain, and mitigate security incidents.
- Support root cause analysis to improve security posture and prevent repeat breaches.
- Optimize security tools and platforms for performance and effectiveness while meeting compliance and organizational requirements.
- Maintain documentation for platform configurations, AI services and capabilities, troubleshooting guides, and operational procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field OR a combination of education and experience
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, and AI/ML, including experience in large, complex environments, such as:
- Managing security platforms and tools in enterprise environments
- Telemetry pipeline platforms (e.g., BindPlane), SIEM (e.g., Splunk, QRadar), and vulnerability management tools
- Scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, and/or Bash)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Cloud security tools and platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Container security (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Networking protocols, firewalls, and network security best practices
- AI/ML concepts, architectures, and AI security challenges
- AI threat areas (adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, unauthorized access)
- Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines
- Data protection techniques (encryption, anonymization, secure storage) and secure access management (RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust)
- Incident response, monitoring tools, and threat intelligence platforms
- Security frameworks and compliance references (SAIF, NIST, FAICP)
- ITSM processes and tools (ServiceNow) and delivery practices/tools (Agile, JIRA)
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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Hard Skills & Tools
security engineeringplatform engineeringAI/MLscriptingautomationInfrastructure as Codecloud securitycontainer securityvulnerability assessmentpenetration testing
Soft Skills
collaborationincident responseroot cause analysispolicy developmentdocumentation