AI Security Engineer

Protect Enterprise Innovation as Our Next AI Security Engineer!

Are you ready to lead the defense of cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems across a global technology leader? Join our team to secure agentic systems, safeguard models against adversarial threats, and embed robust automated controls into next-generation AI deployments.

About Us:

Trimble is an industrial technology company transforming the way the world works by delivering solutions that enable our customers to thrive. We create technologies that connect the digital and physical worlds, helping our customers increase productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. From purpose-built products to enterprise-level solutions, our technology empowers professionals in construction, geospatial, government, transportation, and more.

Corporate:

Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it's helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress. For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq:TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.   

What Makes This Role Great:

In this high-impact senior individual contributor role, you will serve as the dedicated AI security expert across the enterprise, bridging Agentic AI, Cyber Security, and AI Governance. You will have full ownership to design adversarial attack scenarios, secure agentic systems, and develop secure-by-default reference architectures that directly protect next-generation enterprise technology.

Key Exciting Responsibilities

• Assess and secure AI agents, tool integrations, and agentic workflows while evaluating permission scoping, action-chain risk, and non-human identity frameworks.
• Design and execute advanced adversarial attack scenarios including prompt injection, jailbreaking, insecure output handling, and data leakage across retrieval pipelines.
• Partner with AI engineers to establish automated security guardrails, vector store access controls, and output filtering policies across model lifecycles.
• Audit AI Ops pipelines, vet third-party AI supply chain components, and lead model risk assessments prior to production deployment.
• Develop enterprise AI security standards and train cross-functional AppSec, SecOps, and GRC teams on AI-specific attack classes and threat mitigations.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of security engineering or application security experience with demonstrated technical depth in operational AI attack classes.
• Hands-on proficiency with Python, MLOps tooling, AI frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and agent protocols (MCP).
• Practical experience executing AI red-teaming using open-source tools such as PyRIT, Garak, or Promptfoo.
• Solid background in cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, or GCP and containerized environment security.
• Strong working knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, OWASP agentic threat guidance, and NIST AI RMF standards.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with commercial AI security platforms, shadow AI discovery tools, or applied MITRE ATLAS tactics.
• Awareness of international AI governance frameworks, including ISO/IEC 42001 and the EU AI Act.
• Contributions to open-source AI security tools, published security research, CVEs, or industry conference speaking engagements.
• Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, AWS Security Specialty, or GIAC cloud security tracks.

Logistics:

Location: Westminster, CO, Hybrid
Travel Requirement: 10%

Why You'll Love Working With Us

At Trimble, we're not just a company that "does good"—we are a team dedicated to making a tangible, positive Real-World Impact.   

We build innovative solutions designed to solve the world's most critical challenges. From construction sites to transportation hubs, our work tangibly improves how people live, build, move, and grow.  

You'll work on projects that truly matter: Our purpose-driven culture means you'll be helping to build and deliver solutions that make work faster, safer, and more sustainable for millions of people worldwide. Our impact is tangible, from connected machines that save fuel to data-driven insights that reduce waste.   

Collaborate with like-minded people: Our strong internal culture is a "hidden gem." You will work with a collaborative, supportive team that shares your purpose and fosters a genuine sense of belonging. We're a company of "visionary pragmatists" who think boldly and build things that work.   

Be an owner: Trimble thrives on individuals who take initiative and embrace ownership. You'll find an entrepreneurial spirit where success is often "self-authored," empowering proactive "doers."

AI Security Engineer, Application Security, Cyber Security, Agentic AI, Prompt Injection, MLOps, Red Teaming, OWASP LLM, AI Governance, Cloud Security

Compensation:  Trimble provides the following compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. This compensation range is based on a full time schedule. Trimble reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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Benefits:  Trimble offers comprehensive core benefits that include Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, Time off plans and retirement plans. Most of our businesses also offer tax savings plans for health, dependent care and commuter expenses as well as Paid Parental Leave and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If this position is identified above as commission- or bonus-eligible, the terms of the commission plan or discretionary bonus plan for which you are eligible will be provided following the employee start date.

How to Apply: Please submit an online application for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply Now’ button located in this posting.

Application Deadline: Trimble accepts applications on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

At Trimble, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Guided by our core values—Belong, Innovate, and Grow—we embrace and celebrate differences, knowing they make us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and advancing opportunities while embracing race, color, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other protected and diverse characteristic. We are committed to offering our candidates and employees with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs the ability to seek reasonable accommodations in accordance with applicable law and/or where it would not constitute undue hardship for Trimble. For more, please see Trimble's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics at https://investor.trimble.com, under “Corporate Governance.”

Our mission to transform the way the world works starts with transforming how we work together. By actively listening, asking questions, and taking intentional actions, we cultivate a culture that provides equitable opportunities for everyone to contribute and grow.

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