[Remote] Senior Product Security Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vertex Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to enhance their product security strategy. The role involves leading secure design initiatives, establishing security best practices for AI-enabled features, and mentoring other engineers while ensuring effective risk management across the organization.ResponsibilitiesOwn and evolve major components of the Product Security strategy, translating product and business risk into actionable, measurable security programs with clear success metricsLead Secure-by-Design initiatives across product teams, embedding security requirements early in product and feature design, and defining secure design patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails that scaleLead security architecture reviews, secure code reviews, threat modeling, and application penetration testing, with a focus on systemic risk reduction across a broad range of productsEstablish and own security best practices for AI-enabled product features, model integration, and AI service architectures, including data handling, model access, and inference workflowsLead AI-specific threat modeling addressing misuse, data leakage, supply-chain exposure, and abuse scenarios; define security controls and governance requirements specific to AI features and servicesEvaluate the security implications of new AI technologies, tools, and models prior to adoption; embed responsible AI principles—traceability, privacy, bias awareness, transparency, and auditability—into product security decisionsDrive consistency in how product and AI risks are assessed, documented, tracked, and accepted across the organizationServe as advisor to product and engineering on security risk, architectural trade-offs, and risk acceptance decisionsMentor and provide technical leadership to other Product Security engineers and serve as an escalation point for complex security decisionsSkills5+ years of experience in the security domain, including applying security controls to cloud-based technologies and implementing Product Security frameworks such as OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)Proven track record of establishing security controls and governance requirements for AI-enabled features, including data handling, model access, and inference workflowsHands-on experience with AI product development security, including partnering with engineering and subject matter experts on model evaluation, tuning, and trainingAbility to define evaluation criteria for AI systems and interpret results to inform security requirements and release readiness decisionsExperience with cloud governance principles and Product Security tooling, including SAST and DASTDemonstrated ability to lead threat modeling, secure code reviews, and application penetration testing for complex, cross-cutting security issuesDemonstrated expertise in defining and scaling secure design patterns, reference architectures, and security guardrails across multiple product teamsTechnical acumen to experiment directly with AI tools and prototypes in support of faster product security validationBachelor's degree in computer science or a related field; equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant professional experience accepted in lieu of a formal degreeExperience with DevSecOps practices, zero trust design principles, and cloud incident response. Experience contributing to the automation of security analysis and testing activitiesTrack record of mentoring and providing technical leadership to security engineering teamsBenefitsThis role may be eligible for the Vertex Bonus Plan (VOB)A role-specific sales commission/bonusEquity grantsCompany OverviewThe rapid changes taking place in today’s global business, technology, and regulatory environments are having a compounding effect on the complexity of indirect tax management and putting more pressure on the corporate tax function than ever before. It was founded in 1978, and is headquartered in Hudiksvall, Gavleborgs Lan, SWE, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.vedax.se/.Company H1B SponsorshipVertex Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 26 in 2025, 18 in 2024, 7 in 2023, 13 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 7 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.