Cybersecurity for AI · 15 roles
Every cybersecurity for AI career path, organized.
Filter by track to focus your search. Each role gets practitioner- depth treatment: salary data, AI Impact Outlook, day in the life, and explicit bridges to cybersecurity foundation roles and applied AI foundation roles.
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AI Safety Engineer
$220K medianSafety and Alignment · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Safety Engineer builds cybersecurity-grade safety measures into AI systems before they ship to reduce misuse and harm.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: security engineer
AI Alignment Researcher
$280K medianSafety and Alignment · AI Disruption 5/100
An AI Alignment Researcher studies how AI behavior stays aligned with human values as model capability scales, a foundational AI security discipline.
AI Red Team Engineer
$230K medianSafety and Alignment · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Red Team Engineer adversarially tests AI systems to find safety and cybersecurity failures before attackers do.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: penetration tester
Responsible AI Engineer
$195K medianSafety and Alignment · AI Disruption 15/100
A Responsible AI Engineer implements responsible-AI practices in production: bias measurement, fairness checks, explainability, and AI security guardrails.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
AI Trust and Safety Engineer
$200K medianSafety and Alignment · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Trust and Safety Engineer works on AI deployment safety, abuse prevention, and content policy enforcement at the cybersecurity layer of production systems.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
Prompt Injection Defense Specialist
$210K medianSecurity Engineering · AI Disruption 10/100
A Prompt Injection Defense Specialist defends production AI from prompt-based attacks, the AI security analog to web application firewall engineering.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: security engineer
AI Security Engineer
$215K medianSecurity Engineering · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Security Engineer hardens AI systems and the surrounding infrastructure against attack across the cybersecurity stack.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: security engineer
Adversarial ML Researcher
$240K medianSecurity Engineering · AI Disruption 5/100
An Adversarial ML Researcher conducts research on attacks against machine learning systems to advance AI security knowledge.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: penetration tester
AI Privacy Engineer
$200K medianSecurity Engineering · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Privacy Engineer designs privacy controls for AI systems and training pipelines, applying cybersecurity privacy practice to model lifecycle.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: security engineer
AI Incident Responder
$195K medianSecurity Engineering · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Incident Responder responds to AI security and safety incidents, running the cybersecurity playbook for AI-specific failure modes.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: incident responder
AI Evaluation Engineer
$205K medianGovernance and Risk · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Evaluation Engineer builds evaluation frameworks that determine whether AI systems are ready to ship across capability, safety, and AI security criteria.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
AI Ethics Specialist
$165K medianGovernance and Risk · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Ethics Specialist develops and enforces AI ethics policies inside an organization, the cybersecurity analog of a security policy lead applied to AI.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
AI Governance Lead
$215K medianGovernance and Risk · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Governance Lead designs and operates organizational AI governance frameworks at policy level, mirroring cybersecurity GRC practice for AI.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
AI Risk Analyst
$145K medianGovernance and Risk · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Risk Analyst conducts risk assessments for AI initiatives across compliance, reputation, cybersecurity, and operations.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst
AI Compliance Officer
$175K medianGovernance and Risk · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Compliance Officer ensures AI systems meet regulatory requirements: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and sector-specific cybersecurity rules.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: grc analyst