Principal Consultant, AI, Proactive Services (unit 42) - Remote

Principal Consultant, AI, Proactive Services (Unit 42) - Remote

The Principal Consultant, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Proactive Services is focused on leading engagements on our AI team across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will assess security risk in the development and use of AI models and tools across multiple frameworks and act as a technical key team member in client engagements. They will be the client's advocate for cybersecurity risk management and provide expert recommendations to enhance their AI security posture.

Your impact will include:

• Conducting comprehensive security assessments of AI systems and tools using frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS for adversarial tactics and techniques, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs to identify vulnerabilities in AI/ML models, and NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) for risk analysis and mitigation.
• Developing and executing assessment plans tailored to foundational models, base models, and SaaS-based AI tools.
• Analyzing model architectures, training data pipelines, and deployment environments to identify potential security gaps and vulnerabilities.
• Providing expert guidance on securing AI systems, including adversarial ML defenses, data poisoning prevention, and privacy-preserving AI techniques (e.g., differential privacy).
• Evaluating compliance with regulatory requirements and standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, or emerging AI-specific regulations).
• Collaborating with the client's cross-functional teams, conducting stakeholder interviews, interactive workshops, and meetings with technical teams (data scientists, developers, DevOps engineers) and leadership teams to ensure a thorough understanding of system architecture, security requirements, and business objectives for the assessment.
• Staying up-to-date on the evolving threat landscape in AI and contributing to the development of innovative security solutions.
• Assisting Unit 42 Consulting Leadership in the development of Risk Management, Compliance, and Security standards within professional services.
• Maintaining industry knowledge of and experience with cybersecurity best practices within the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) field to provide recommendations to proactively improve our client's security posture and maturity.
• Maintaining an understanding of the comprehensive threat intelligence landscape, key threat actors, MITRE ATT&CK TTPs, threat intelligence platforms, zero-day and other vulnerabilities, and other threat-led cybersecurity intelligence information.
• Maintaining an understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms and security best practices as well as threat to foundational, base, and other AI models and tools.
• Leading or supporting cybersecurity risk assessments, audits, program and policy maturation and development, incident response tabletop exercises, configuration reviews, breach readiness reviews, and expert witness cases in accordance with industry best practices, regulations, standards, and company policies and procedures.
• Maintaining the ability to work across multiple frameworks and regulatory standards including, but not limited to, NIST, CIS 18, ISO, GDPR, CCPA, SOX, and HIPAA.
• Managing the team, monitoring progress, tracking budget, mitigating risks, and ensuring key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes while defining potential impacts and creating an effective mitigation strategy for multiple projects at a given time.
• Identifying security risks and vulnerabilities while eliminating cybersecurity threats via stakeholder interviews, documentation review, and deep-dive testing and control validation.
• Evaluating client controls for compliance with legal, regulatory, privacy, policy, standards and security requirements.
• Effectively documenting and communicating audit, assessment, or compliance results, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Effectively communicating with external stakeholders in a professional manner.
• Scoping new opportunities with prospective clients, including drafting statements of work and proposals.
• Meeting travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average ~30%)