Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- IT, Data, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 72.000 to 87.000€ Gross/Year
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you secure AI/ML pipelines, develop security controls, conduct risk assessments, and implement compliance with the EU AI Act and financial services regulations throughout the machine learning lifecycle.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We're looking for a skilled AI Security Engineer (m/f/d) to strengthen the security of our intelligent systems.
- You will be instrumental in protecting our AI/ML pipelines, embedding security best practices across the full machine learning lifecycle, and ensuring compliance with evolving industry standards.
- Working closely with data scientists, ML engineers, and platform teams, you'll define and implement concrete security controls across our pipelines, infrastructure, and applications.
- Bringing your solid foundation in AI/ML security, you'll own risk assessments, shape governance documentation, and translate the EU AI Act and financial-services regulations into practical technical controls.
- You will also support monitoring, incident response, and AI vendor evaluations in collaboration with Legal, Compliance, and Procurement.
- Consult and review secure architectures for our AI systems - from in-house models to third-party LLMs (including RAG, vector databases, APIs, and integrations into our products and internal tools).
- Conduct AI-specific threat modeling and security reviews across the ML lifecycle (data training deployment monitoring).
- Perform security testing / red-teaming of LLM and ML systems (e.g. prompt injection tests, jailbreaks, exfiltration and data-leakage tests).
- Work closely with data scientists, Machine Learning engineers, platform engineers and Compliance & IT Security to define and implement concrete controls in pipelines, infrastructure and applications.
- Own and support AI risk assessments, and help write/review policies, standards and governance documentation for AI use.
- Translate EU AI Act, financial-services regulation and relevant standards into practical technical and process controls.
- Help define monitoring, logging, and incident response for AI/LLM systems, including misuse and data-leak detection.
- Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Procurement on AI vendor selection, risk assessments, and contract reviews.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Practical knowledge of LLM-specific risks, such as: prompt injection and jailbreaks, data leakage and sensitive information exposure, model inversion, membership inference, supply chain risks in AI tooling and models.
- Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle and typical MLOps setups (data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment, CI/CD, monitoring) and where to place security controls.
- Ability to read Python code and basic ML pipelines and to build small scripts/tools (e.g., for automated tests, log analysis, or prototype guardrails).
- Background in risk assessment and in writing or reviewing policy and governance documentation.
- Vertrautheit mit relevanten KI-Standards und -Frameworks, wie z. B.: ISO 42001, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF, OECD AI Principles.
- Understanding of EU AI Act obligations and how they apply to a fintech / financial services context, with the ability to map them to concrete controls.
- Strong grasp of data protection and privacy-by-design in AI (data minimisation, pseudonymisation/anonymisation, retention and deletion of training and log data).
- Background in financial services or fintech, or another highly regulated industry.
- Ability to translate technical AI risk into clear business language - you're comfortable presenting to both engineers and senior leadership.
- Comfort with ambiguity - AI regulation, standards and best practices are evolving quickly, and you help us navigate that.
- Collaborative, enabling mindset - you work through influence, coaching and partnership, not gatekeeping.
- You help teams ship valuable AI solutions safely, not stop them.
Experience
- Demonstrable experience in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning security in a production context - not just general cybersecurity.
- Experience designing or reviewing secure architectures for AI/LLM systems, including: API security and authentication/authorization, secrets management (API keys, tokens, credentials), isolation of tenants/contexts and access control for data sources & vector stores, protection of sensitive data in prompts, logs and training data.
- Experience working side-by-side with data scientists or ML engineers - you have credibility in technical rooms and can challenge design decisions constructively.
- Experience reviewing AI vendor contracts or working with procurement/legal on technology and SaaS agreements.
- Prior audit or regulatory experience, ideally representing technical systems to auditors or financial regulators.
- Experience with logging, monitoring, and incident response for AI or other high-risk systems.
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What we offer
- For this senior role, our salary band is €72,000 - €87,000 gross per year (based on a 40-hour work week).
- The exact offer will reflect your experience and qualifications.
- Thriving, financially stable company.
- Strong experienced international team to support and mentor you along the way, smooth onboarding process.
- International team of 30+ nationalities with professionals and experts.
- Flat hierarchy, transparent and appreciative feedback culture, monthly all-hands meetings, annual feedback and evaluation cycle, regular 1-on-1s with your lead.
- Well-structured onboarding process as well as supportive and welcoming colleagues.
- Personal learning & development budget as well as German and English language courses.
- Unlimited employment contract, flexible working hours and 28 vacation days for your work-life balance.
- Company pension plan, partly covered Deutschlandticket (public transport), and access to "Corporate Benefits" voucher platform to ensure your full well-being.
- Fun company summer and Christmas parties as well as regular team events.
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Benefits
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This is your employer
Pair Finance Gmbh
PAIR Finance is the leading AI-based FinTech company for collections and debt management. Our innovative technology, modern behavioral analytics, and data science allow businesses to recover lost revenue from unpaid invoices - quickly, efficiently, and with a customer-centric approach.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Senior AI Security Engineer
- Salary
- 72.000 to 87.000€ Gross/Year
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
