AI Safety/Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist (Pune, MH, IN, 411006)

HSBC
Pune
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringEducation: bachelorsSkills: []

Lead the engineering and productionisation of AI safety guardrails for enterprise AI use cases, including prompt injection, jailbreak, sensitive data detection, and policy enforcement. Build detector pipelines and evaluation workflows to measure offline/online effectiveness, tune thresholds, and analyze false positives/negatives. Design protection for RAG, coding assistants, and agent systems, adding decisioning, observability, governance, and scalable rollout with strong reliability and performance controls.

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AI Safety/Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist (Pune, MH, IN, 411006)

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering and productionisation of AI safety guardrails for enterprise AI use cases, including prompt injection, jailbreak, sensitive data detection, and policy enforcement. Build detector pipelines and evaluation workflows to measure offline/online effectiveness, tune thresholds, and analyze false positives/negatives. Design protection for RAG, coding assistants, and agent systems, adding decisioning, observability, governance, and scalable rollout with strong reliability and performance controls.
Location: Pune
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement and operate AI safety detectors covering prompt injection/jailbreak, sensitive data and leakage prevention, harmful content detection, policy checks, and agent/tool-use risk controls.
  • •Implement detector pipelines using rules, machine learning models, LLM-based evaluators, and third-party safety services with interfaces, confidence scoring, and policy-driven actions.
  • •Deliver evaluation workflows for guardrails, including offline test sets, online validation, threshold tuning, regression checks, and analysis of false positives/negatives.
  • •Design end-to-end protection patterns for enterprise RAG, coding assistants, and agent systems across upload, retrieval, prompt/response, logging, and tool execution layers.
  • •Partner across platform, infrastructure, security, and AI teams to productionise guardrails and build observability/governance with scalable rollout and operational controls.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree or above (or equivalent experience) with strong software engineering experience building and operating distributed, cloud-native backend systems in production.
  • •Hands-on production experience building and operating AI safety/guardrail, content safety, trust and safety, or AI risk detection systems.
  • •Practical experience in areas such as prompt injection detection, jailbreak defense, PII/sensitive data detection, data leakage prevention, content safety, policy violation validation, system prompt leakage detection, or agent safety controls.
  • •Experience implementing detection approaches including rule engines/pattern matching, NER, classifiers, LLM-as-judge patterns, or hybrid detector ensembles.
  • •Strong evaluation and measurement experience for safety systems, including precision/recall, threshold design, offline and online evaluation, and human review workflows.
Education:Bachelor's
Tech Stack:AI safetyGuardrailsPrompt injection detectionJailbreak detectionPII detectionContent safetyPolicy enforcementLLM-based evaluatorsLLM-as-judgeRules engineRegular expressionsPattern matchingNamed entity recognitionClassifiersRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Coding assistantsAgent systemsObservabilityTelemetryTracing

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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