Principal Information Security Engineer

Job Title Principal Information Security Engineer

Location: O'Fallon, Missouri Local candidates only

Duration: 12 months

Interview: Video 3 rounds

Job Description Summary
As an Information Security Engineer specializing in AI Security, you will be at the forefront of protecting our AI systems and data. Your role will involve deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining advanced security measures to safeguard our AI infrastructure from sophisticated threats and vulnerabilities. You will be instrumental in ensuring the robustness, confidentiality, and availability of our AI-driven solutions.

• Duration of assignment? Is there an anticipated opportunity for conversion or extension? 1 year; open to conversion if funding allows and skillset aligns

• What is the name of your group? How does it fit into the overall Mastercard organization? Data Protection and AI Security; we are aligned to the Emerging Corporate Security Solutions program within Corporate Security. We support the organization s implementations of Cryptography, Data Security (including Data Loss Prevention) and AI Security.

• What program will this person be supporting? Will this person be a part of a Guild? If so, which one and how will they be contributing? Supporting Emerging Corporate Security Solutions, I don t think they need to be aligned to a guild.

• What is your team s main responsibility? AI Security team will be responsible for security AI implementations across Mastercard - including reviewing AI Implementations and identifying deviations from published standards, defining new standards needed in alignment with regulatory and emerging threats, vendor and tool evaluations (Model Evaluation, Guardrails, Red Team Testing), process improvements, and AI Security Governance.

• What are your top 3 required technical skills?
1. AI Security - Model Evaluations, Implementation Evaluations
2. Cloud Security
3. Data Privacy/Security minded - this is a role focused on securing AI not using AI for the organization

• Why would someone want to work for your team within Mastercard? What s going to stand out to a candidate about your group or the work?

As adoption of AI increases within the organization; there s a huge opportunity for impact to secure AI Technologies and implementations. We are setting the foundation for standards, governance and tooling across the organization as it pertains to AI. As AI is frequently evolving landscape (GenAI, Agentic AI, etc.), the job is fast paced and requires researching and understanding emerging threats to secure Mastercard.

• What will be your interview process? [Phone, Teams, Zoom, On-Site, 1x1, Panel Interview, # Rounds, etc.]

Round 1 - Teams - 2 Engineers from Team

Round 2 - Teams - Panel Review with Business Security Engineers

Round 3 - Teams - Me

• Please outline potential interview block times to ensure candidate availability below [Suppliers are aware these are subject to change]:

3PM-4PM M-Th

11AM-12PM F