BBG Ventures

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BBG Ventures is a NYC-based, early-stage fund backing big ideas that will reshape the way we live. BBGV backs typically overlooked founders who are building scalable solutions to problems that millions of people face — and that the founder understands firsthand. BBGV’s most recent $60M Fund II addresses large categories demanding reinvention: health and wellbeing; the future of education and work; climate friendly commerce; overlooked and emerging consumers.

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BBG Ventures

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Staff Security and AI Engineer

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**Job Title** Staff Security and AI Engineer **Role Summary** Lead the development and execution of AI security strategy for an organization handling highly sensitive data. Define threat models, govern AI systems, build security tooling, manage an AI Red Team, and develop incident response capabilities across product and engineering teams. **Expectations** - Threat‑model 80 % of new AI features before general availability. - Test 80 % of AI features with adversarial or Red Team assessment pre‑GA. - Achieve ≥70 % coverage of production AI features with automated LLM vulnerability tests. - Increase AI Red Team participation by 10 % YoY. - Deliver AI incident response playbooks and conduct ≥1 tabletop or live simulation annually. **Key Responsibilities** 1. Define and evolve AI security strategy for product and corporate environments. 2. Lead secure design, threat modeling, and risk mitigation for LLMs, agentic workflows, and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) systems. 3. Identify and mitigate prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse, and privilege‑escalation risks. 4. Build scalable AI security guardrails and tooling to support safe experimentation. 5. Establish and enforce AI‑specific governance: identity, access control, auditability, observability. 6. Own and lead the AI Red Team to proactively discover vulnerabilities. 7. Design AI observability pipelines for real‑time anomaly detection and policy violation alerts. 8. Develop and operationalize AI incident response playbooks; coordinate containment and remediation. 9. Partner with product, engineering, legal, and compliance to embed responsible AI practices. 10. Mentor engineers, set high security standards, and champion a culture of secure AI development. **Required Skills** - 10+ years in software engineering, 5+ years in security. - Practical AI/ML security experience, including LLM red‑team exercises. - Built or implemented automated LLM vulnerability testing (prompt injection, exfiltration). - Strong foundation in application security, threat modeling, secure design, identity & access control. - Tooling and automation proficiency; developer mindset. - Experience influencing senior engineers and cross‑functional stakeholders. - Proven mentoring and culture‑building in security. - Deep knowledge of modern CI/CD, git workflows, and developer tooling. - Ability to translate emerging AI risks into pragmatic, scalable controls. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity or related field. - Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH, or equivalent) preferred.

New york, United states

Hybrid

Senior

26-03-2026