Toyota North America

Forward Deployed AI Security Lead

Toyota North America  •  Plano, TX (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Forward DeployedAISecurityLead

Location: Plano, Texas

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, ‘job flexibility benefits’ (also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability), etc. now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is likeatToyota. As one of the world's most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve.We'relooking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.withus.

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company —delivering onToyota's vision to move people beyondwhat'spossible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Who we’re looking for

ToyotaFinancial Services (TFS) Technology team is looking for a highly motivated person to fill a role as a Forward DeployedAISecurityLeadwithin theSecurity Intelligence Engineeringorganization.You'llown theintelligenceplatform end-to-end: from API integrations with enterprise security tools, to a cross-source correlation engine, to an agentic AI layer that autonomously triages security findings at scale, to dashboards that deliver actionable intelligence to multiple security teams.You'lloperateat the intersection of security operations, AI/ML engineering, and cloud platformdevelopment — embedding directly with security team leads tounderstandtheir workflows and building AI systems that transform them. This role follows the Forward Deployed Engineer model: you embedwithinternal security teams as your customers, deeply understand their operational reality, and build production systems that deliver measurable outcomes.

Whatyou'llbe doing

  • Embed directly with security team leads across multiple functions to deeply understand their workflows, tools, and pain points

  • Lead discovery sessions toidentifyhigh-value automation opportunities — translating security operations problems into AI-solvable technical specifications

  • Own the structured intake process: prioritize requests by cross-team impact and risk reduction value, communicate capacity and timelines transparently

  • Design and build multi-agent architectures using managed AI services — autonomous triage agents, cross-source correlation agents, and team-specific specialist agents

  • Implement RAG systems over a centralized security data lake for natural language threat hunting and investigation

  • Build prompt engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that continuously improve agent accuracy

  • Design a model routing layer that directs each task to theoptimalmodel based on complexity, latency, and cost

  • Implement centralized token usage monitoring and cost controls for leadership visibility

  • Own agent observability: monitoring for drift, hallucination detection, accuracy degradation, and failure mode identification

  • Architect human-in-the-loop controls and guardrails ensuring agentsoperatesafely within defined boundaries

  • Design and build API connectors to enterprise security tools (EDR/XDR, cloud security, API security, identity, vulnerability management)

  • Architect the cross-source correlation engine that links findings across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network data

  • Define and evolve the data lake schema and ingestion pipelines for security telemetry

  • Build andmaintaindashboards serving multiple security teams with team-specific views

  • Set engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns as the team grows

  • Serve as the trusted technical advisor to security leadership — translating complex AI/ML capabilities into clear, actionable security outcomes

What you bring

  • 5+ years building production systems, with strong Python and TypeScript fluency

  • 1+ years hands-on experience with LLMs in production or near-production contexts — prompt engineering, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, or fine-tuning

  • Hands-on experience with security tool APIs — particularly EDR/XDR platforms

  • Strong AWS foundation: S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC, and familiarity with managed LLM services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock)

  • Understanding of security operations workflows — alert triage, investigation chains, incident response, threat intelligence correlation

  • Demonstrated ability to work directly with non-engineering stakeholders: translating business/operational problems into technical solutions, managing expectations, and delivering outcomes

  • Experience building full-stack applications (API layer + frontend) that serve multiple user groups

  • Strong communicationand interpersonal skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority

Added bonus if you have

  • Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks

  • Background in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or customer-embedded technical role — or early-stage startup experience

  • Experience with cloud security posture management platforms

  • MITRE ATT&CK framework knowledge and practical application to detection engineering

  • Experience building evaluation pipelines for AI systems — automated metrics, human evaluation protocols, A/B testing

  • Background in financial services security or regulated environments (SOX, SOC 2)

  • Experience with model serving optimization, cost management, and token usage monitoring

  • Familiarity with vector databases and retrieval system design

What we'll bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect

• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement

• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)

• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family

• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute

• Paid holidays and paid time off

• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more

• Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)

• Relocation assistance (if applicable)

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com

Toyota North America

About Toyota North America

At Toyota, we’re known for making some of the highest quality vehicles on the road. But there is more to our story. We believe in putting people first and creating opportunities for our team members to build careers as unique as they are. As one of the world’s most admired brands, we are leading the way to the future of mobility, so everyone can move freely, happily and comfortably. We have big dreams and believe that nothing is impossible.

Ready to Dream, Do and Grow with us?

Industry
Automotive & Mobility
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Plano, TX
Year Founded
1957
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