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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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