Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Panorama Education is a technology company building the leading platform for student insight and action in K-12. As a Senior AI Security Engineer, you'll own the security of internal AI systems and external services, ensuring responsible use of AI to protect student data and enhance educational outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Lead the security design for Panorama's shared AI infrastructure and AI-powered internal workflows, building the guardrails that govern how AI systems access, process, and handle sensitive data at every layer
- Own threat modeling for AI-specific risks, including the attack surfaces that don't map cleanly onto traditional application security
- Design controls for validating, logging, and auditing AI outputs in contexts where accuracy and data protection are non-negotiable
- Build security tooling and automated checks that let internal teams adopt AI capabilities without slowing down
- Build and maintain the process for reviewing external AI tools, APIs, and SaaS integrations before internal adoption, keeping criteria current as the vendor landscape evolves
- Evaluate third-party AI services for data handling practices, privacy posture, and risk to sensitive data
- Establish standards for how teams integrate external model providers and AI-powered tools, covering technical, privacy, and contractual requirements
- Define and drive Panorama's approach to AI security governance, including the policies, standards, and decision-making processes we use to adopt AI responsibly
- Work with security and engineering leadership to align AI governance with broader data protection and compliance obligations
- Serve as the internal point of view on AI security risk, helping leadership understand tradeoffs and make informed decisions as we expand our AI capabilities
- Work closely with the engineers and product leaders owning the internal AI platform to embed security into the platform itself
- Partner with squads and teams adopting AI tooling to apply the right patterns early and avoid risks
- Translate security requirements into practical guidance the team can act on
- Collaborate with IT on the identity, access, and device controls that intersect with AI systems and integrations
- Serve as an active member of the security squad, keeping AI security integrated into Panorama's broader security approaches, standards, and decision-making
Skills
- 5+ years of security engineering experience, with hands-on work building and securing production systems
- Direct experience with AI systems security: LLM integrations, tool-using agents, retrieval pipelines, or comparable work
- A genuine commitment to protecting student data and to the mission of serving students and educators
- Experience evaluating or governing third-party AI tools and services, with an eye toward data privacy and vendor risk
- Strong grounding in application and data security: threat modeling, access control, secrets management, and secure handling of sensitive data
- Demonstrated ability to build security programs, processes, or standards from scratch rather than inheriting a mature playbook
- Comfort operating in a space where the tools, risks, and best practices are still being defined, and a track record of bringing structure to ambiguous problems
- A collaborative working style that brings teams along rather than gating them
- Familiarity with MCP or similar tool-use and integration patterns
- Experience securing internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure
- Knowledge of K-12 privacy requirements such as FERPA, COPPA, or state-level student data privacy laws
- Experience with cloud security guardrails, posture management, and identity and access patterns
Benefits
- Annual bonuses or commission awards
- Equity awards
- 401K with an employer match
- Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Flexible spending account for health care and dependent care
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Work from Home Reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Parental leave program
- Company Issued Laptop
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