Artificial Intelligence Security Specialist EMEA

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. Our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is home to deeply talented colleagues that work to ensure the safety of Citi's clients', our revenue, our employees and our proprietary data. We manage information security as one end-to-end program – one with a clear mandate and accountability. Our mission is a program that is fully anchored to modern control and architectural frameworks, is fully aligned with the enterprise architecture of the firm and is deeply integrated into the businesses and functions.

AI models can now autonomously discover and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in production software — and we're building the defensive capability to match. We're hiring across four CISO teams working at the intersection of AI and cyber security.

What Makes This Different:

• AI-driven vulnerability management. When frontier models can generate thousands of findings in a weekend, the bottleneck shifts from discovery to triage, verification, and remediation.
• Security architecture for the AI era. Defining how a global bank deploys, monitors, and governs agentic AI.
• AI at scale, not in a lab. Securing the footprint and the platforms that underpin them.
• Securing AI agents that can behave like insider threats. Designing the containment architectures and runtime controls to operate them safely at enterprise scale.
• Real security engineering. You will be expected to understand the code, the architecture, the threats, and find solutions.

What You'll Work On:

• Offensive Security & Vulnerability Management — AI-assisted pen testing at a scale previously impossible.
• AI & Emerging Technology Security — Define how the bank deploys AI safely.
• Cyber Security AI Services — Own the AI products CISO depends on in production.
• Cyber Security Operations — Detection, triage, and response for a world where adversaries use AI.

What We're Looking For:

• AI/ML Engineering — Hands-on LLM API experience.
• Cyber Security — Vulnerability research, exploit development, or pen testing.
• Software Engineering — You've built and operated production systems.
• Research & Communication — Can digest dense technical research and turn it into actionable security recommendations.
• Mindset - You love to engineer solutions to problems vs purchasing tools.

Levels:

• Assistant Vice President (C12 Mid - Senior Level): 5-7+ years.
• Vice President (C13 Senior - Lead/Staff Level): 8-10+ years.
• Senior Vice President (C14 Lead/Staff - Principal Level): 10+ years.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.