Staff Security Engineer, AI Security

PayPal is hiring a Staff Security Engineer, AI Security in Bangalore.

The Company PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. W

Requirements

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications:

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and execution of Product Security’s technical roadmap for AI security controls and assurance, partnering with Security Architecture to translate requirements into scalable engineering capabilities.
• Design, implement, and operate controls for AI-assisted software development, including security review of AI-generated code, security context and constraints for coding agents, automated testing, and risk-based enforcement.
• Conduct and lead security reviews of AI-enabled applications and their models, agents, retrieval systems, data flows, and external tool integrations.
• Create controls for agent identity, least privilege, tool access, execution isolation, human approval, and interruption of unsafe behavior.
• Design and help implement security controls for AI models, agents, toolsets, datasets, and pipelines.
• Develop runtime monitoring, auditability, detection, containment, and incident-response requirements for AI systems, including visibility into agent actions, tool calls, and sensitive-data access.
• Build and scale AI-driven capabilities for vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation across teams and engineering workflows.
• Partner with AI platform and cloud engineering teams to integrate security across AI infrastructure, platforms, and workloads.
• Help establish security criteria for evaluating, onboarding, integrating, and periodically reassessing third-party models, AI services, APIs, and developer tools.
• Develop methods and metrics for evaluating AI security risk, control effectiveness, remediation performance, and adoption across teams.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for complex AI security issues and lead architectural reviews following significant incidents or control failures.
• Mentor security and engineering professionals, deliver targeted technical guidance, and help teams apply AI security controls across diverse technology stacks.

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, application security, product security, or cybersecurity, including leadership of complex security initiatives spanning multiple teams or technology platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on familiarity with application security tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, WAF, Burp Suite).
• Strong programming experience in at least one language such as Ruby, Java, Python, JavaScript, or Swift.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and version control systems such as Git.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML).

What you need to know about the role This is a hands-on individual contributor role with cross-organizational scope. You will help set technical direction, lead delivery, and mentor engineers while remaining directly involved in architecture reviews, control design, implementation, and technical problem-solving.

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