Freelance Opportunity - AI / ML Security Engineer

We are looking for an experienced AI / ML Security Engineer to help design and build a platform that evaluates the security of AI agents and intelligent applications.

The ideal candidate should have strong expertise across AI/ML, Python, Application Security, Cloud, Threat Modeling, and AI Red Teaming, with prior experience in the Banking & Financial Services domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop adversarial testing frameworks and AI/ML red-team scenarios

• Build prompt-injection and data-exfiltration security tests

• Design model-abuse and tool-abuse simulations

• Create automated AI/ML security risk-scoring systems

• Integrate LLMs, agent orchestration, sandboxing, and telemetry into secure evaluation pipelines

• Analyze security failures and translate findings into mitigations and engineering requirements

• Collaborate with engineering, security, and cross-functional teams

• Perform experimentation and security validation of AI agents and ML systems

Required Skills

6+ years of relevant experience

Banking / Financial Services domain experience – Mandatory

Strong Python programming skills

Machine Learning experience

Application Security experience

Cloud platform experience

Strong API development/testing knowledge

Threat modeling

Secure Software Development

Kubernetes

Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Nice to Have

Agentic AI / AI Agent experience

AI Red Teaming

Cybersecurity research

LLM security / GenAI security

Adversarial ML / security testing frameworks