AI Security Engineer

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Practice Area Profile

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

BCG GAMMA combines innovative skills in computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), statistics, and machine learning with deep industry and functional expertise. The BCG GAMMA team is comprised of world-class data scientists, software and data engineers, as well as product experts with a consulting mindset.

We specialize in creating competitive advantage for our clients through AI driven transformations. Our teams own the full analytics value-chain end to end: framing new business challenges, designing innovative algorithms, implementing and deploying scalable solutions, and enabling colleagues and clients to fully embrace AI. Our product offerings span from fully custom-build to industry specific leading edge AI software solutions.

What You'll Do

As a forward-deployed Security Engineer you’ll be part of our rapidly growing engineering team and help to secure the next generation of AI solutions. You’ll have the chance to partner with clients in a variety of BCG regions and industries, and on key topics like climate change, enabling them to design, build, and deploy new and innovative solutions. Additional responsibilities will include developing and delivering thought leadership in the security community and papers as well as leading conferences on behalf of BCG GAMMA.

WHO YOU ARE

• We are looking for talented individuals with a passion for secure software development, cloud native security, and transforming organizations into AI led innovative companies.
• Apply secure software development practices and standards to develop robust and maintainable software
• Experienced at guiding non-technical teams and consultants in and best practices for robust secure software development
• Optimize and secure CI/CD pipelines and cloud native infrastructure
• Motivated by a fast-paced, service-oriented environment and interacting directly with clients on new features for future product releases
• A natural problem-solver and intellectually curious across a breadth of industries and topics

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

YOU BRING

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python or Go
• Experience securing containers, container orchestrators, and microservices
• Cloud security expertise across major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Hands on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and installing SAST, DAST, and IAST tools in CI/CD pipelines
• An ability to effectively communicate security risks of AI systems to senior stakeholders

NICE TO HAVE

Industry certifications from ISC(2), SANS, etc. and cloud specific certifications related to AWS, Azure, and GCP

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Fluency in English is required as well as fluency in the local language for some locations

Ability to travel based on client and business needs. Expect 30-50%

Candidates should be aware that BCG currently maintains a policy requiring all US & Canada based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. BCG is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under applicable federal, state, provincial and local law.