
Principal Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, AI Security – Agentic Systems
Walmart
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Herndon • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $108,000 - $216,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Review internal AI projects, pipelines, and architectures for security gaps, and drive mitigations.
- Analyze emerging global threats and risks related to AI, and update our security policies, playbooks, and standards accordingly.
- Define and refine scalable security processes and controls for AI and ML systems across their lifecycle.
- Collaborate with engineers and product teams to implement secure-by-default patterns in CI/CD and MLOps workflows.
- Build reference implementations and prototypes to validate security controls in real-world AI environments.
- Write clear technical documentation, design diagrams, and decision records for broad consumption across engineering teams.
- Act as a mentor and trusted advisor on secure engineering and AI safety topics.
Requirements
- Option 1: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, information technology, or related area and 5 years’ experience in technology infrastructure engineering across areas such as compute, storage, network, mobility or virtualization-related technologies.
- Option 2: 7 years’ experience in technology infrastructure engineering across areas such as compute, storage, network, mobility or virtualization related technologies.
- Developer background with Python hands-on programming skills.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Strong hands-on experience with Git repositories and version control best practices.
- Hyperscale cloud platform experience: Azure and Google Cloud.
- Linux expertise and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- AI/ML Fundamentals: Deep understanding of artificial intelligence concepts, AI frameworks, Generative AI and LLMs and model deployment processes (MLOps) and Hugging Face.
- AI Model Security: Knowledge of specific threats to AI/ML models, including adversarial attacks (e.g., evasion, poisoning), model inversion, and membership inference.
- Demonstrated use of AI-assisted tools to boost engineering productivity and a strong grasp of Generative AI technologies, concepts and risks.
Benefits
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonDockerKubernetesHelmGitAzureGoogle CloudLinuxTerraformAI/ML Fundamentals
Soft Skills
mentorshipcollaborationcommunicationtechnical documentation
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in computer engineeringBachelor's degree in information systemsBachelor's degree in information technology