AI Security Engineer

Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first. We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.

In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence. With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.

Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.

You will protect Planet's enterprise AI platforms and autonomous agents, reducing exposure while enabling teams to adopt AI securely and responsibly.

Working with the Global SOC, engineering and platform teams, agent owners, and governance stakeholders, you will strengthen AI incident response and embed practical security controls across a multi-AI environment.

• Protect AI platforms, assistants, models, integrations, and autonomous agents from misuse, data leakage, excessive permissions, prompt-based attacks, insecure connectors, and emerging threats.
• Partner with the Global SOC to triage, investigate, contain, and learn from AI-related security incidents.
• Develop AI-focused monitoring, detection logic, threat-hunting approaches, response playbooks, and measurable control improvements.
• Identify and reduce exposure from unmanaged AI use, public agents, exposed credentials, risky integrations, insecure plugins, and over-permissioned identities.
• Assess AI applications, copilots, agents, models, retrieval systems, prompts, data sources, and third-party services through security reviews and threat modelling.
• Implement guardrails for identity, access, secrets, data handling, connector security, logging, monitoring, permissions, and human oversight.
• Maintain clear ownership, risk classification, findings, and remediation tracking, communicating progress to technical teams and senior stakeholders.

• Experience in security engineering, cloud security, security operations, detection engineering, application security, or a closely related discipline.
• Practical knowledge of AI and agent risks, including prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, insecure tool use, identity abuse, secrets exposure, and supply-chain risk.
• Experience with Microsoft security technologies, cloud platforms, SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, logging, and automation.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI services and developer tooling such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, and Agent 365.
• Ability to translate technical risk into implementable controls and work constructively with platform, engineering, and agent owners.
• Comfort developing or reviewing automation using PowerShell, Python, KQL, or similar languages.
• Strong investigation, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills, with an engineering mindset focused on scalable risk reduction.

Why Planet

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce.

We would love to hear from you – Apply now.

At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.

Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.