AI Security Architect

At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the mic and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 5,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing. AI Security Architect Why We Have This Role AI systems face threats that traditional security architecture wasn't built for: adversarial manipulation, model theft, data poisoning, prompt injection, and supply-chain risk across the ML pipeline. The AI Security Architect leads the design and implementation of security frameworks that protect our AI systems — building resilience against these threats and earning our customers' trust. How You’ll Find Success Strategic Visionary: You hold a holistic view of AI/ML threat models, proactively identifying and mitigating emerging risks. You guide security architecture strategy so it aligns with the organization’s risk posture and business goals. Technical Innovator: Your drive for continuous improvement pushes you to explore and implement cutting-edge AI security practices — adversarial robustness testing, model hardening, secure MLOps — keeping our AI systems resilient against evolving threats. Collaborative Leader: You build partnerships across security, engineering, and data science, promoting best practices in AI security. Your ability to foster collaboration creates an informed, cohesive environment dedicated to protecting our systems. Resilient and Adaptive: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing complex projects while guiding cross-functional teams through shifts in the threat landscape or technology. Your problem- solving skills are essential to navigating the complexities of AI security governance. How You’ll Grow Shape Industry Standards: Participate in industry conferences, thought leadership forums, and professional organizations to influence the future of AI security practices. Executive Presence: Increase your visibility and involvement in executive-level discussions, refining how you communicate strategic security insights. Expand Your Leadership Toolkit: As a thought leader in AI security architecture, mentor and coach emerging talent, growing the security expertise across the organization. Complex Problem-Solving: Tackle significant AI security challenges that sharpen your analytical,critical thinking, and strategic planning abilities. Things You’ll Do Drive Innovation in AI Security: Lead research, evaluation, and implementation of next-generation security technologies and methodologies — adversarial defense, model security, secure MLOps pipelines — that support our AI solutions. Conduct Security Reviews: Perform security reviews of AI products and proposed designs, including architectures built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic AI systems, identifying risks such as tool-use abuse, unauthorized action-taking, and insecure agent-to-agent or agent to-tool communication. Develop Standards & Reference Architectures: Author AI-related technical security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures that give product and engineering teams a secure, repeatable blueprint for building and deploying AI system…