Senior Technical Consultant - Forward Deployed AI Security Engineer

The role

The Forward Deployed AI Security Engineer is a customer-facing technical operator who lives inside client environments, not behind a ticket queue. You will sit with security, platform, and AI engineering teams to assess how generative and agentic systems actually behave at runtime, then design, deploy, tune, and operationalize AI security controls that hold up under production load.

You will install, configure, integrate, and defend tools in live estates: Palo Alto Prisma AIRS, Koi Agentic Endpoint Security, Onyx, Zenity, Zscaler AI Security, and CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR. You will write the findings, brief executives, train operators, and stay until the control plane is working — not until the workshop ends.

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Senior Technical Consultant - Forward Deployed AI Security Engineer

AHEAD, India

The role

What you will do

Perform AI runtime assessments. Inventory AI applications, models, agents, copilots, MCP servers, plugins, and data flows. Evaluate prompt/response paths, tool-calling behavior, identity chains, and attack surface. Produce scored findings covering prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, model and agent misuse, shadow AI, and unsafe autonomous actions.
Deploy and operationalize AI security tools. Stand up, integrate, and harden Palo Alto Prisma AIRS (runtime firewall, API intercept, model security, agent security, red teaming, posture), Koi Agentic Endpoint Security, Onyx Secure AI Control Plane / Guardian Agent, Zenity (observability, AISPM, exposure management, runtime boundaries), Zscaler AI Security (AI Guard, asset management, zero-trust access to GenAI), and CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR and related Falcon modules.
Design the control plane. Map traffic through AI gateways, inline intercepts, endpoint agents, SaaS connectors, and identity providers. Define allow/block/human-in-the-loop policies for prompts, tool use, MCP calls, package and extension installs, and agent actions.
Integrate with the existing stack. Wire AI security telemetry into SIEM/SOAR, EDR/XDR, SSE/Zero Trust, IAM, CSPM, and ticketing. Correlate AI events with endpoint, identity, and network signals so detections are actionable, not noisy.
Red team and validate. Run adversarial testing against LLMs, agents, and copilots. Convert findings into enforceable guardrails. Re-test after deployment and prove residual risk is accepted or closed.
Own customer outcomes. Embed with the account. Drive architecture workshops, implementation sprints, policy workshops, and knowledge transfer. Leave behind runbooks, detection content, and an operating model the customer can run without you.
Communicate with precision. Write assessment reports, risk memos, architecture decision records, and board-ready summaries. Brief CISOs, AI platform owners, legal/privacy, and engineers in clear, idiomatic English. Escalate risk without inflating it.
Feed product and practice. Return field patterns, integration gaps, and detection ideas to product, threat research, and delivery teams. Help standardize playbooks for repeatable AI security deployments.

Senior Technical Consultant - Forward Deployed AI Security Engineer

The role

Senior Technical Consultant - Forward Deployed AI Security Engineer

The role

What you will do

What you need

Nice to have

Core Tooling You Will Deploy and Operate

Why AHEAD

India Employment Benefits include

About AHEAD

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