Job Description

Do you want to secure the runtime systems that execute AI models at global scale?

Are you passionate about defending inference infrastructure against emerging threats unique to AI workloads?

Join the Akamai Inference Cloud Team!

The Akamai Inference Cloud team is part of Akamai's Cloud Technology Group. We build AI platforms for efficient, compliant, and high-performing applications. The Inference Execution & Runtimes team owns the core inference engine - runtime frameworks, model serving infrastructure, and execution environment processing every request. Our work determines the latency, throughput, and efficiency of AI workloads across Akamai's global infrastructure.

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A Senior Security Engineer on the Inference Execution & Runtimes team defines and implements security practices across the AI inference stack. Responsibilities include runtime hardening, supply chain integrity, and threat modeling for inference workloads. This role requires expertise in security engineering and knowledge of AI/ML serving architectures, model execution environments, and their specific attack surfaces.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing and implementing runtime security controls that protect inference execution environments against adversarial inputs, model extraction, and unauthorized access
• Conducting threat modeling and security assessments of inference serving frameworks, model loading pipelines, and GPU execution environments
• Hardening model serving infrastructure including container isolation, runtime sandboxing, and supply chain integrity for model artifacts and dependencies
• Developing automated security testing and monitoring for inference workloads to detect anomalous behavior, data exfiltration, and prompt-based attacks
• Collaborating with platform and model intelligence teams to establish security standards across the full inference lifecycle from model ingestion to production serving

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience in this area
• Demonstrate hands-on experience in application or infrastructure security engineering with a focus on runtime protection, threat modeling, or penetration testing
• Demonstrate knowledge of AI/ML inference architectures and address security challenges like model poisoning, prompt injection, and data leakage.
• Have experience with container security, supply chain hardening, and secure deployment practices in cloud-native environments
• Demonstrate proficiency in Python, Go, or C++ with experience building security tooling or automated vulnerability detection
• Show familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards relevant to AI systems (e.g., OWASP ML Top 10, NIST AI RMF, FedRAMP)

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