Principal Consultant AI Proactive Services Unit 42 - Remote
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Job Description
Your Career
The Principal Consultant Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Proactive Services is focused on leading engagements on our AI team across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will assess security risk in the development and use of AI models and tools across multiple frameworks and act as a technical key team member in client engagements. They will be the clients advocate for cybersecurity risk management and provide expert recommendations to enhance their AI security posture.
Your Impact
Conduct comprehensive security assessments of AI systems and tools using frameworks such as:
MITRE ATLAS for adversarial tactics and techniques.
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs to identify vulnerabilities in AI/ML models.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) for risk analysis and mitigation.
Develop and execute assessment plans tailored to foundational models base models and SaaSbased AI tools.
Analyze model architectures training data pipelines and deployment environments to identify potential security gaps and vulnerabilities.
Provide expert guidance on securing AI systems including:
Adversarial ML defenses.
Data poisoning prevention.
Privacypreserving AI techniques (e.g. differential privacy).
Evaluate compliance with regulatory requirements and standards (e.g. GDPR HIPAA or emerging AIspecific regulations).
Collaborate with the clients crossfunctional teams conducting stakeholder interviews interactive workshops and meetings with technical teams (data scientists developers DevOps engineers) and leadership teams to ensure a thorough understanding of system architecture security requirements and business objectives for the assessment.
Stay uptodate on the evolving threat landscape in AI and contribute to the development of innovative security solutions.Assisting Unit 42 Consulting Leadership in the development of Risk Management Compliance and Security standards within professional services
Maintaining industry knowledge of and experience with cybersecurity best practices within theGovernance Risk and Compliance (GRC) field to provide recommendations to proactively improve our clients security posture and maturity
Maintaining an understanding of the comprehensive threat intelligence landscape key threat actors MITRE ATT&CK TTPs threat intelligence platforms zeroday and other vulnerabilities and other threatled cybersecurity intelligence information
Maintaining an understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and security best practices as well as threat to foundational base and other AI models and tools
Leading or supporting cybersecurity risk assessments audits program and policy maturation and development incident response tabletop exercises configuration reviews breach readiness reviews and expert witness cases in accordance with industry best practices regulations standards and company policies and procedures
Maintaining the ability to work across multiple frameworks and regulatory standards including but not limited to NIST CIS 18 ISO GDPR CCPA SOX and HIPAA
Managing the team monitoring progress tracking budget mitigating risks and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes while defining potential impacts and creating an effective mitigation strategy for multiple projects at a given time
Identifying security risks and vulnerabilities while eliminating cybersecurity threats via stakeholder interviews documentation review and deepdive testing and control validation
Evaluating client controls for compliance with legal regulatory privacy policy standards and security requirements
Effectively documenting and communicating audit assessment or compliance results findings and recommendations to stakeholders
Effectively communicating with external stakeholders in a professional manner
Scoping new opportunities with prospective clients including drafting statements of work and proposals
Meeting travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 30%)
Qualifications :
Your Experience
69 years of experience performing information security and risk assessments based upon industryaccepted standards.
Former professional services and consulting experience preferred
Experience managing a team of consultants
Experience with GRC tools technology and implementation
Experience with security assessments/audits drafting findings and recommendations and prioritizing recommendations via quantitative risk scoring
Experience with securing AI systems within cloud environments (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud).
Experience with the lifecycle management of AI/ML models including development deployment monitoring and maintenance.
Strong verbal and written communication skills particularly in conveying complex technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
Demonstrate a track record in strengthening existing and developing new client relationships
Knowledge of computer forensic tools technologies and methods
Bachelors Degree in Information Security Computer Science Digital Forensics Cyber Security or equivalent years of professional experience to meet job requirements and expectations
Additional Information :
The Team
Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Networks security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response risk management and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations data breach response digital forensics and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering missioncritical cybersecurity solutions we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response attack readiness and remediation plans with a focus on providing longterm support to improve our clients security posture.
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $151000 $208000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
