Zelis · 11 hours ago
AI Security Architect
St. Petersburg, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$169K/yr - $214K/yr
10+ years expZelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. The AI Security Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing security frameworks for AI technologies, ensuring they are developed and deployed securely and ethically in compliance with regulations.
FinanceFinTechHealth Care
No H1B
Responsibilities
Develop secure-by-design architecture guidelines for AI/ML platforms, including data ingestion, model training, model deployment, and inference layers
Define reference security architectures, patterns, and guardrails that enable secure AI development while minimizing manual review and approval friction
Partner with respective engineering teams to automate / bake in the security guardrails where possible
Design risk-based, proportionate AI security controls that satisfy regulatory and enterprise requirements while enabling rapid AI development and experimentation
Identify threats unique to AI systems—model inversion, poisoning, evasion attacks, data leakage, prompt injection, etc. Evaluate emerging AI security threats, tools, and best practices
Lead AI-specific risk assessments and security design reviews
Work with red teams to validate model robustness against adversarial attacks
Establish security policies for ethical AI use. Ensure compliance with enterprise, industry, and regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 42001)
Partner with data science, platform engineering, cloud security, product, and compliance teams
Qualification
Required
10+ years in cybersecurity architecture or engineering roles
Strong knowledge of modern AI/ML architectures, pipelines, and tooling. Experience with LLM security, prompt safety testing, or generative AI governance
Understanding of AI based attacks and threats
Strong knowledge of data protection and controls required to protect data
Knowledge of creating and communicating cybersecurity risks both in technical and non-technical manner
Experience working in AI/ML or data engineering environments
Proven track record designing enterprise security frameworks or architecture patterns
Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
Leadership skills to guide engineering teams and influence organizational policy
Knowledge of regulatory frameworks specific to healthcare or finance (HIPAA, PCI, etc.)
Benefits
401k plan with employer match
Flexible paid time off
Holidays
Parental leaves
Life and disability insurance
Health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
Company
Zelis
Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience for all.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$20.15MKey Investors
Mubadala
2024-12-04Private Equity
2020-01-05Private Equity· $20.15M
2019-01-01Private Equity
Leadership Team
Amanda Eisel
Chief Executive Officer
Brian Gladden
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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