Senior Engineer - GenAI Security

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

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At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

• Job Description:
• This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities of the job include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this job is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Job Profile Summary:

Global Markets GenAI Technology is a fast-growing global team with locations in New York City, Charlotte, London, and India. Generative AI presents an exciting opportunity to derive valuable insights from data and drive revenue growth, efficiencies, and improved business processes. Global Markets GenAI Technology will collaborate with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group (QSDG) & Platform teams to the design and buildout global generative AI platform.

The platform will cater to a rapidly growing number of use cases that harness the power of Generative AI. Both proprietary and open-source Large Language Models, and large structured and un-structured data sets will be leveraged to produce insights for Global Markets and its clients.

Responsibilities:

Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features are consistent with the larger portfolio solution

Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tool/framework/practices for team(s)

Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of CI-CD pipeline

Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance –e.g. pairing, code reviews

Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams, at the program level

Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features

Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements

Define and implement the security architecture for the GenAI platform

Design and enforce identity and access control models

Establish secure API and tool invocation patterns

Define and implement AI guardrails and safety controls

Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for GenAI systems

Design and enforce RAG and data security controls

Required Qualifications:

8+ years in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform security engineering

Strong expertise in:

Identity and access management (IAM), OAuth2, mTLS

API security, gateway enforcement, and zero-trust design

Threat modeling and risk assessment

Proven experience designing and securing:

Distributed, cloud-native platforms

Multi-tenant systems with strict data access controls

Strong understanding of:

Data protection, encryption, and access control principles

Auditability, logging, and compliance frameworks

Familiarity with:

Observability and detection engineering (SIEM, anomaly detection)

Attack vectors and security risks in modern application architectures

Desired Qualifications:

Experience with GenAI / AI/ML security, including:

Prompt injection and adversarial attacks

Data leakage and model misuse risks

Guardrails and safety evaluation frameworks

Experience securing:

RAG architectures, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines

Agent-based or multi-agent systems

Experience in regulated environments (financial services strongly preferred)

Familiarity with:

OWASP LLM / agentic security risks

Model governance, lineage, and compliance metadata

Skills:

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.