AI Cybersecurity Engineering Lead, Director
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, operating the IBIT bitcoin ETF and the BUIDL tokenized fund.
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About BlackRock
BlackRock (blackrock.com) is the world’s largest asset manager, with production digital-asset businesses: the IBIT spot bitcoin ETF, the BUIDL tokenized money-market fund (with Securitize), and tokenization initiatives.
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About the Role
You will lead the cybersecurity engineering function within Aladdin Platform Engineering. You will set technical strategy for building security into software delivery and cloud infrastructure, own supply chain security and build attestation, secure AI-assisted and agentic workflows, and lead and mentor security engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years in security engineering, platform engineering or application security, including leading teams
- Deep understanding of software supply chain security
- Strong DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline security practice
- Cloud-native security expertise across containers, serverless, microservices and APIs
- Experience securing AI/ML workloads or agentic systems
- Ability to influence engineering organizations
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; certifications such as CISSP, CCSP
Responsibilities
- Own software supply chain security strategy including provenance, SBOMs, signing and build attestation
- Harden build systems, artifact repositories and deployment pipelines
- Define the security model for agentic and AI-assisted workflows
- Embed automated controls across the delivery lifecycle
- Partner with information security, risk and audit to translate requirements into guardrails
- Report progress and residual risk to senior leaders
- Build, lead and mentor a team of security engineers and security champions
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus
- Healthcare
- Leave benefits
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program
- Parental leave
- Flexible Time Off