Enterprise AI Security Advisor

Eli Lilly and Company

. Establish and own a companywide approach to securing AI agents, models, applications, and supporting infrastructure .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $129,000 - $253,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in AI security, including the establishment of security controls, risk assessment, and incident response for AI systems. Proficient in integrating security requirements into architecture and collaborating across teams to ensure compliance and safety in AI applications.

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AI Security Strategy DevelopmentCloud Security ExpertiseExperience with LLM Threat ModelsProficiency in PythonRelevant Security Certifications

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Hard Skills

CybersecuritySecurity ArchitectureAI ApplicationsIdentity and Access ManagementData ProtectionIncident ResponseInference-Time GuardrailsAdversarial Red-TeamingSecurity OperationsInfrastructure-as-Code

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsTechnical LeadershipMentoringCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

AWSAzureSIEMSOAREDRREST APIsAI Detection and Response ToolingAgent Frameworks

Certifications & Qualifications

CISSPCCSPCloud Security Certifications

Industry Keywords

AI GovernanceRegulated IndustriesHealthcare CompliancePharmaceuticals ComplianceOWASP Top 10 for LLM ApplicationsMITRE ATLAS

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish and own a companywide approach to securing AI agents, models, applications, and supporting infrastructure
Maintain a prioritized view of AI security risk across commercial AI products, internally built agents, internal models, and AI compute platforms
Own the roadmap for AI security controls, tooling, and improvements; report progress and measurable outcomes to leadership
Advise senior leaders on emerging AI threats, safety and productivity trade-offs, and investment priorities
Define security requirements and approved patterns for AI systems, including identity, permissions, data access, human approval, kill switches, logging, monitoring, and incident response
Publish reference architectures and acceptance criteria for AI applications, agents, and integrations
Set control expectations for inference-time guardrails, AI gateways, and model and agent registries
Integrate AI security requirements into security architecture review, risk acceptance, and change management processes
Assess internally built AI systems and third-party AI products and identify required controls
Develop and lead testing for prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, excessive permissions, unsafe agent actions, jailbreaks, and misuse scenarios
Define evidence required before moving controls from monitoring to blocking
Maintain threat models for high-value AI systems using OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and MITRE ATLAS
Evaluate, select, and tune cloud, endpoint, identity, data protection, and AI-specific security capabilities
Establish visibility into enterprise AI usage and agent activity
Lead enterprise AI guardrail services, including detection content, policy tuning, telemetry, dashboards, and integrations with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, identity, and ticketing platforms
Define detection, alerting, and incident response playbooks for AI-specific events
Partner with AI engineering teams to incorporate security into design, build, and deployment
Collaborate with privacy, legal, compliance, quality, and AI governance functions
Mentor engineers and security operations personnel on AI threat models, safe agent design, and responsible AI principles
Engage vendors, industry groups, and technology partners on emerging AI security capabilities
At the Sr. Advisor level, serve as enterprise authority on AI security, own multi-year strategy and investment cases, represent Cybersecurity with executives, auditors, and external partners, and set technical direction

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or a related IT technical field
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform/software engineering
Experience in a technical leadership, architecture, or senior advisory capacity
Track record of setting technical direction at enterprise scale and influencing executive investment decisions
Experience designing or leading security programs across multiple products, teams, or business units
Strong understanding of cloud security, application security, identity and access management, data protection, and security operations
Hands-on experience with AI applications, agents, model platforms, LLM APIs, agent frameworks, or agent-to-tool integration protocols
Strong understanding of LLM-specific threat models, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data leakage, tool misuse, excessive agency, data poisoning, and model misuse
Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications and MITRE ATLAS
Ability to evaluate security products and distinguish useful capabilities from features that do not address actual risks
Proficiency in Python or a comparable language
Working knowledge of AWS or Azure, REST APIs, and infrastructure-as-code
Experience building or operating inference-time guardrails, AI gateways, DLP for AI traffic, or AI detection and response tooling at enterprise scale
Experience with AI security reviews, adversarial red-teaming, or AI governance frameworks in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals or healthcare
Experience securing GPU/HPC, model-training, or inference platforms and related data pipelines
Familiarity with AI regulatory expectations, high-risk AI classifications, auditability requirements, and conformity assessments
Experience with SIEM/SOAR, EDR, and identity platforms in a detection engineering or security operations context
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or cloud security certifications
Experience with Agile delivery in cross-functional teams
Ability to work across engineering, infrastructure, security, product, legal, and leadership teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to explain AI risk to technical and business audiences

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company bonus depending, in part, on company and individual performance
Company-sponsored 401(k)
Pension
Vacation benefits
Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits
Flexible benefits, including healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts
Life insurance and death benefits
Time off and leave of absence benefits
Well-being benefits, including employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities