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

Work arrangement
Yes