Opportunity brief
S&P Global is hiring for the role of Associate Software Development Engineer - Information Security!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Secure Development Guidance: Assist in providing actionable security guidance to engineering teams across server-side development, UI frameworks, and cloud integrations.
- Threat Modeling & Reviews: Partner with senior engineers to perform threat modeling, secure design reviews, and secure code reviews—with a growing focus on auditing AI agents, LLM pipelines, and cognitive workflows.
- AI Risk Assessment: Assist in identifying vulnerabilities unique to AI systems (such as prompt injection, data poisoning, and insecure output handling) and help evaluate new AI technologies adopted by the business.
- Security Automation: Leverage Python and open-source security tools to build, maintain, and automate security testing within the CI/CD pipeline.
- Vulnerability Research: Help analyze, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities discovered during automated scans or manual testing, acting as a technical advisor for engineering teams.
- Repeatable Security Patterns: Implement and support repeatable application security blueprints, ensuring applications and AI agents are appropriately sandboxed and segmented based on data sensitivity.
- Continuous Learning: Keep pace with evolving security trends, zero-day vulnerabilities, and emerging frameworks for securing AI architectures (such as the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs).
Requirements:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 1year or more of professional experience in Information Security, Application Security, or a highly security-focused software development role.
- Scripting & Programming: Proficiency in Python for security scripting, automation, or data handling (exposure to Java or JavaScript/Angular is a plus).
- AI/LLM Awareness: Foundational knowledge of AI concepts, LLM architectures, or AI agents, including an understanding of how to securely interact with APIs and handle data privacy in AI workflows.
- Application Security Basics: Familiarity with core AppSec concepts, web services, microservices/SOA architecture, and standard vulnerability frameworks (OWASP Top 10).
- Network & Cryptography Fundamentals: Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, transport layer security (TLS/DTLS), PKI, certificate management, and basic encryption concepts