Job Description

• Strong runtime protection for AI systems in production
• Reduced exposure to AI misuse, data leakage, and agent abuse
• Clear alignment to NIST AI RMF, security-by-design, and regulatory runtime expectations
• Defensible governance posture for clients, auditors, and regulators

• Define and own enterprise AI governance controls focused on runtime security, monitoring, and enforcement for GenAI, LLM, RAG, and Agentic AI systems in production.
• Establish technical standards for runtime threat detection and prevention, covering prompt injection, agent manipulation, inference abuse, data leakage, hallucination exploitation, and unauthorized model access.
• Ensure AI runtime architectures incorporate guardrails, policy enforcement points, and telemetry collection across APIs, orchestration layers, model gateways, and inference pipelines.
• Oversee implementation of continuous monitoring and observability mechanisms, including behavioral monitoring, data and concept drift detection, usage anomalies, and output risk indicators.
• Institutionalize governance requirements for runtime risk response, including alerting thresholds, automated containment, escalation workflows, and integration with enterprise cyber and incident response processes.
• Partner with platform, security, and MLOps/LLMOps teams to embed runtime controls into CI/CD pipelines, model deployment workflows, and API management layers without impacting delivery velocity.
• Define governance expectations for secure AI operation at scale, including access control, rate limiting, logging, explainability at runtime, and auditable control evidence.
• Lead technical governance for high‑risk and regulated AI deployments, ensuring runtime behavior complies with internal policies, client contractual commitments, and global regulatory expectations (e.g., NIST AI RMF).
• Act as the technical advisor for AI runtime risk decisions, advising executive stakeholders and clients on production readiness, risk acceptance, and control effectiveness.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information/Cyber Security, AI/ML, Data Science, or related field

10-15+ years overall experience, including 3+ years in AI governance, AI runtime threat vectors and AI observability, monitoring, and drift management

Proven ability to design and govern runtime guardrails using AI governance and risk platforms (e.g., Credo.ai for AI inventory, policy enforcement, and risk assessment)

Strong hands‑on understanding of runtime monitoring and observability for AI systems, leveraging LLMOps/MLOps platforms such as MLflow, Weights & Biases, Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, or equivalent, to track usage patterns, behavioral anomalies, and model drift in production.

Command of drift detection and AI behavior monitoring, including data drift, concept drift, and output instability, using observability and model monitoring tools (e.g., Aporia, Datatron, custom telemetry built on OpenTelemetry).

Ability to operationalize AI runtime governance controls within CI/CD and deployment pipelines, embedding security checks and enforcement into MLOps/LLMOps workflows orchestrated through platforms such as Kubeflow, Airflow, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.

EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company. We partner with clients using a data and AI-led approach to reinvent business models, drive better business outcomes and unlock growth with speed. EXL harnesses the power of data, analytics, AI, and deep industry knowledge to transform operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media and retail, among others. EXL was founded in 1999 with the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. We are headquartered in New York and have more than 54,000 employees spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com EXL never requires or asks for fees/payments or credit card or bank details during any phase of the recruitment or hiring process and has not authorized any agencies or partners to collect any fee or payment from prospective candidates. EXL will only extend a job offer after a candidate has gone through a formal interview process with members of EXL’s Human Resources team, as well as our hiring managers.