Application & AI Cyber Security Engineer
EQT Ventures is the early-stage venture capital strategy of EQT Group, partnering with founders building 'Generation-Defining Companies.' With 1.1 billion euro invested behind the strategy, EQT Ventures acts as an early-stage lead investor, operational advisor, and high-conviction capital provider for ambitious European founders, typically investing between 2-50M EUR.
About EQT Ventures
EQT Ventures partners with founders building Generation-Defining Companies, aiming to back ambitious visions that can become game-changing, resilient businesses. As early-stage lead investors, operational advisors, and high-conviction capital providers, the team—made up of ex-founders and operators—provides hands-on support to help portfolio companies scale fast, break through barriers with access to the global EQT platform, and build long-term resilience. EQT Ventures is domiciled in Luxembourg, with investment advisors located in Stockholm, Paris, London, New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, and is focused on European companies, having backed over 140 founding teams to date across sectors such as AI, fintech, edtech, robotics, and aerospace. The firm operates through multiple funds, including EQT Ventures I, II, and III, with clients/portfolio companies ranging from early-stage startups like Sana Labs, 1X, Payrails, Parloa, and The Exploration Company.
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About the Role
Own the security posture of hosted applications, container platforms, and AI environments by building automated guardrails and real-time visibility. The role combines application security, container security, and AI security, with responsibility for technical controls, observability, governance, and secure enablement of AI-assisted development.
Requirements
- Hands-on container security experience with Kubernetes, image scanning, admission control, runtime protection, and policy-as-code.
- Experience building automated security controls that scale.
- Application security fundamentals including OWASP Top 10, secure development lifecycle, and software supply chain risk.
- Experience building security visibility through instrumentation, runtime analysis, or operational dashboards.
- Active use of AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot.
- Early or growing experience in AI and LLM security, including prompt injection, data exfiltration, model API security, or agentic system controls.
- Ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Nice-to-have experience with security tools, MCP, agentic frameworks, AI platform administration, financial services, security-control cost optimization, or local open-source LLMs.
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy automated controls for container platforms and application deployments, including admission controllers, policy-as-code, and pre-configured scanning.
- Enable citizen development by making AI coding tools usable without requiring manual security review.
- Curate internal security tooling, automation, and AI skills for cost, reliability, and security posture.
- Own container security standards including image scanning policy, runtime baselines, and registry governance.
- Manage software supply chain risk through dependency scanning and composition analysis.
- Build application security observability and actionable dashboards for engineering leadership and the CISO function.
- Own AI platform security configuration, including hardening, access controls, data flow governance, and defenses against prompt injection and data exfiltration.
- Assess MCP connector risk and evaluate new AI tools for security approval decisions.
- Define behavioral baselines for agentic execution environments and address AI-specific insider threat gaps.
- Collaborate with detection, identity, and cloud security engineers on telemetry, workload access, service identity, and secrets management.
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Wellbeing and wellness support
- Flexible working arrangements
- Learning and development opportunities