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