Director, AI Chief Engineer – Process Excellence
HARMAN International
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AI/ML Expert
Ford Motor Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
CloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformPython
About the role
- Design and maintain structured guidelines and controls to secure AI systems, covering data protection, model security, and compliance requirements.
- Evaluate and utilize established frameworks such as Google’s Secure AI Framework (SAIF), NIST AI Risk Management Framework, or the Framework for AI Cybersecurity Practices (FAICP) as references or baselines.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate security risks specific to AI, including adversarial attacks, data poisoning, model inversion, and unauthorized access.
- Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and penetration testing on AI models and data pipelines.
- Ensure data used in AI systems is encrypted, anonymized, and securely stored.
- Implement robust access controls (e.g., RBAC, ABAC, Zero Trust) for sensitive AI data and models
- Protect AI models from tampering, theft, or adversarial manipulation during training and deployment.
- Monitor and log AI system activity for anomalies or security incidents
- Develop and enforce policies to ensure AI systems adhere to industry regulations, ethical standards, and organizational governance requirements.
- Promote transparency, explainability, and fairness in AI models.
- Establish real-time monitoring and advanced threat detection for AI systems.
- Develop and maintain an AI incident response plan for prompt mitigation and recovery.
- Educate teams on AI security best practices and foster a security-aware culture.
- Collaborate with IT, data science, compliance, and business units to align AI security with organizational goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years experience in AI/ML roles, including hands-on model development and deployment.
- Track record of delivering AI solutions that drive business value.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, architectures, and security challenges.
- Strong programming skills in Python, R, or similar languages.
- Strong experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or equivalent.
- Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, neural networks, NLP, and computer vision.
- Experience with cloud AI/ML services and deployment pipelines is a plus.
- Experience with security frameworks (e.g., SAIF, NIST, FAICP) and regulatory compliance.
- Proficiency in data protection techniques, encryption, and secure access management.
- Familiarity with adversarial machine learning, model hardening, and input sanitization.
- Knowledge of incident response, monitoring tools, and threat intelligence platforms.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills for policy development and stakeholder engagement.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonRAI/ML model developmentdata protection techniquesencryptionsecure access managementadversarial machine learningmodel hardeninginput sanitizationcloud AI/ML services
Soft skills
communicationdocumentationpolicy developmentstakeholder engagementteam educationsecurity awarenesscollaboration
