VP, Senior AI Security Engineer

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Senior AI Security Engineer

Role Overview

MUFG is seeking an experienced AI Security engineer to establish and scale the Enterprise AI Security and Agentic AI Program. This role will lead the development of secure, governed, and enterprise-grade AI capabilities using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in Agentic AI engineering with cybersecurity experience to build AI agents that automate and enhance security operations while adhering to enterprise security, compliance, and risk management requirements.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and deploy AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot.
- Build agentic cybersecurity solutions for incident investigation, vulnerability prioritization, threat analysis, compliance monitoring, knowledge retrieval, and remediation orchestration.
- Develop enterprise AI solutions leveraging Copilot extensibility, Microsoft Graph, Azure AI Search, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and enterprise knowledge repositories.
- Establish AI governance frameworks, including approval workflows, human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, model risk management, and Responsible AI practices.
- Implement security guardrails to mitigate risks such as prompt injection, excessive permissions, data leakage, unauthorized actions, and model misuse.
- Integrate AI agents with enterprise platforms including ServiceNow, Defender and other security technologies.
- Define engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices for secure AI agent development, testing, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Partner with Security, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams to ensure secure and compliant adoption of AI solutions.
- Evaluate and incorporate emerging Microsoft AI and Agentic AI capabilities to accelerate automation and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering and related cyber security domain.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building Generative AI, Agentic AI, or Copilot-based solutions in enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot extensibility, and Azure AI Foundry.
- Experience building AI agents capable of performing actions, orchestrating workflows, integrating tools, and supporting autonomous decision-making.
- Strong experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Graph, RAG architectures, and enterprise knowledge grounding.
- Proficiency in Python, REST APIs, workflow automation, and enterprise system integration.
- Strong understanding of AI security, governance, model risk management, Responsible AI, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience implementing AI security controls including RBAC, approval workflows, audit logging, monitoring, and operational guardrails.
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical teams and executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building AI agents for cybersecurity operations.
- Experience with Microsoft Security solutions including Sentinel, Defender, Entra ID, and Security Copilot.
- Experience integrating Copilot Studio agents with ServiceNow, Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, Teams, and enterprise security platforms.
- Experience with Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, LangChain, or similar agent orchestration frameworks.
- Experience working within highly regulated environments such as Financial Services.

Education:

Bachelor's or Masters degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or related field, or relevant industry certifications. Equivalent work experience is equally preferable.

Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

New York / New Jersey: $140k – $203K

Non - New York/ New Jersey $140k - 185k

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.