Senior AI Security Engineer at Citi

Technical leader and engineering manager within CISO's AI security incubation function at Citi, enabling teams to move from ideation to working proof-of-concept and through to production-ready use cases.

Key Responsibilities (by allocation):

Agentic AI Engineering (40%): Design autonomous AI agents for cybersecurity tasks — threat analysis, control validation, triage, response orchestration. Architect multi-agent systems defining how AI agents collaborate, delegate, and escalate across security workflows. Implement agent infrastructure including tool use frameworks, memory and context management, planning/execution loops, guardrails. Build and maintain RAG pipelines, knowledge retrieval systems, and dynamic context assembly. Establish observability, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks for agentic systems. Design safety architectures with sandboxing, permission boundaries, output validation, and escalation triggers.

Incubator Platform Architecture (25%): Own the Incubator Environment platform for CISO teams.

People Leadership (20%): Lead, hire, and develop engineering team.

Stakeholder Communication (15%): Drive innovation communication.

Requirements:

8-10+ years of software engineering experience with technical lead/manager background

Python mastery in production-grade applications

Practical experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), prompt engineering, model evaluation

Track record deploying AI/ML systems at enterprise scale

Experience designing autonomous AI agents including multi-agent orchestration, tool use frameworks, planning/execution loops

Design and implementation of retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, vector databases, embedding models

3+ years leading engineering teams

Cybersecurity familiarity

Preferred:

Agent frameworks: LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Claude Agent SDK

AI red teaming and adversarial attacks on LLMs and agentic systems

MCP experience with MCP servers, tool registries, and resource providers

Cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP)

Salary: Ft22,713,830 - Ft38,083,370 HUF annually

Location: Budapest, Hungary (hybrid, up to 2 days on-site per week)