Superb opportunity to join a leading financial services client with offices in Sheffield. This contract is inside IR35 and we need someone willing to be in the office up to 3-days per week.
The Role
We're looking for an experienced AI Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) to shape and lead our approach to securing AI/ML models, GenAI applications, and AI-driven agents.
This is a high-impact role sitting at the intersection of Security Engineering, DevSecOps, and AI/ML. You'll work closely with engineering, platform, risk, and product teams to ensure AI systems are designed, deployed, and operated securely - from development through to runtime.
Responsibilities:
1. Embed AI security controls into DevSecOps pipelines (model build, training, deployment, runtime)
2. Define secure design patterns for AI/ML models, GenAI apps, and autonomous agents
3. Evaluate and integrate AI/ML security tooling (model scanning, vulnerability detection, runtime guardrails)
4. Identify and manage AI-specific risks such as:
* Model poisoning, tampering, theft
* Prompt injection and jailbreaks
* Unsafe model formats and supply-chain risks
* Data leakage, hallucinations, and misuse
5. Translate emerging threats, CVEs, and research into practical enterprise controls
6. Provide guidanc...