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Principal, AI Security
Job Location:
Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 96000 - 165000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
13 September 2026 (6 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
11 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Itron is innovating new ways for utilities and cities to manage energy and water. We create a more resourceful world to protect essential resources for today and tomorrow. Join us.
Itron Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) is a global leader in technology and services dedicated to the resourceful use of energy and water. With more than 300 million connected endpoints deployed worldwide Itron is one of the worlds largest and most successful IoT companies. Through innovative technology software and services we help utilities and cities improve operational efficiency enhance customer experiences and build a more resourceful and sustainable future.
As we accelerate adoption of artificial intelligence across our enterprise products and services we are seeking an exceptional security leader to help shape and secure the future of AI at Itron.
Role Summary
The Principal AI Security Architecture & Engineering serves as Itrons senior technical authority for AI security. This highly visible hands-on leadership role is responsible for defining and implementing the security architecture governance controls engineering standards and operational practices that enable safe scalable adoption of artificial intelligence generative AI machine learning and AI agents across the enterprise and product portfolio.
The ideal candidate combines deep cybersecurity expertise with practical experience securing modern AI ecosystems including autonomous and semi-autonomous agents large language models AI platforms model gateways non-human identities and data access controls. This individual will partner closely with Information Security Product Security Legal Privacy Engineering Cloud Operations Enterprise Architecture Infrastructure and business leaders to help drive innovative AI capabilities while protecting customers products data and intellectual property.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Define and lead Itrons enterprise AI security strategy architecture policies standards reference architectures and multi-year roadmap.
- Design and implement security controls across the AI and agent lifecycle including registration inventory management identity governance credential protection authorization boundaries autonomy controls human oversight checkpoints memory isolation and agent decommissioning.
- Establish scalable security guardrails for generative AI platforms model integrations APIs plugins automation workflows AI assistants and emerging agentic ecosystems.
- Develop and maintain governance controls supporting privacy confidentiality data protection transparency explainability accountability ethical AI use and bias mitigation.
- Lead AI-focused threat modeling adversarial testing security reviews and risk assessments for enterprise and customer-facing solutions.
- Evaluate and mitigate emerging AI threats including prompt injection tool misuse privilege escalation AI supply chain compromise context poisoning insecure agent interactions and rogue agent behavior.
- Partner with engineering product and architecture teams to embed secure-by-design principles into the development deployment testing and operation of AI-enabled systems.
- Advance the use of AI within Cybersecurity by designing and piloting AI-assisted capabilities that improve detection engineering threat hunting vulnerability management alert triage evidence collection and operational effectiveness.
- Define security logging telemetry monitoring alerting and reporting requirements that measure AI control effectiveness and detect anomalous or malicious activity.
- Develop and operate AI Security Posture Management capabilities including inventories risk assessments third-party evaluations incident response processes compliance readiness and ongoing monitoring.
- Conduct security assessments of AI vendors platforms and service providers with emphasis on architecture data handling privacy access controls resiliency and operational risk.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance for AI-related incidents investigations governance decisions policy exceptions and risk acceptance reviews.
- Author clear technical standards reference architectures implementation guidance and executive communications that enable responsible and secure AI adoption.
- Mentor engineers architects and security practitioners while fostering a collaborative customer-centric culture that balances innovation with risk management.
- Stay current on evolving AI technologies industry regulations attack techniques and emerging security best practices translating insights into actionable improvements for Itron.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7 years of experience in cybersecurity security architecture cloud security identity and access management application security product security or a related technical discipline.
- 2 years of experience working with AI-enabled systems machine learning environments automation platforms advanced analytics solutions or generative AI technologies.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience securing or building agentic systems AI orchestration platforms non-human identity solutions model integrations retrieval pipelines and automated workflows.
- Experience implementing security controls for cloud platforms APIs identity services secrets management data protection logging monitoring and third-party integrations.
- Proven experience conducting threat modeling architecture reviews security assessments control validations and cyber risk evaluations.
- Strong understanding of authentication authorization least privilege secure software design principles and modern security architectures.
- Ability to analyze complex AI and cybersecurity risks and communicate practical recommendations to both technical and business leaders.
- Exceptional written verbal facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively across diverse teams while driving accountability collaboration and execution in a fast-changing technology environment.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity Information Systems Engineering or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience securing large-scale deployments of frontier AI models through direct provider APIs Microsoft Foundry Amazon Bedrock model gateways or comparable enterprise AI platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry Agent Service Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations AI gateway technologies GitHub Copilot Microsoft 365 Copilot Vertex AI Databricks AI capabilities ChatGPT Enterprise or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with AI security and governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications MITRE ATLAS ISO/IEC 42001 and AI regulatory readiness initiatives.
- Experience performing AI red teaming adversarial testing prompt injection testing abuse-case development or AI deployment readiness assessments.
- Background in secure software development DevSecOps CI/CD security container security software supply chain security or product security architecture reviews.
- Experience operating in regulated industries or environments aligned to ISO 27001 SOC 2 NIST GDPR CMMC critical infrastructure utilities or similar compliance frameworks.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP CCSP CSSLP Microsoft Security certifications cloud security certifications AI governance certifications AI security certifications or equivalent credentials.
Travel: Less than 25% on average
Benefits Info:
This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial social health and wellbeing programs paid vacation 401k matching employee stock purchase program hybrid work schedule and more!
This position also includes a competitive benefit package including; financial social health and wellbeing programs paid vacation 401k matching employee stock purchase program hybrid work schedule and more!
The successful candidates starting salary will be determined based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience and may vary by location. The base salary is $ annually. This position is eligible for our annual bonus program.
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Itron is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce and providing an authentic workplace experience for all employees. If you are excited about this role but your past experiences dont perfectly align with every requirement we encourage you to apply the end you may be just who we are looking for!
The successful candidates starting wage will be determined based on permissible non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.
Itron is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you require an accommodation to apply please contact a recruiting representative at 1- or email .
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