Senior Specialty Software Engineer - GenAI & Intelligent Security Engineering

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Specialty Software Engineer in Technology as part of Cybersecurity. Learn more about the career areas and lines of business at wellsfargojobs.com.

We are seeking a highly skilled security engineer with a strong software engineering foundation to design, build, and operate AI‑augmented security engineering capabilities. This role will focus on applying Generative AI and intelligent automation to improve the scale, consistency, and defensibility of security assessments and control validation across enterprise systems. This is a defensive security engineering role, not penetration testing or AI research.

In this role, you will:

Cyber Security Engineering Core

• Lead or contribute to complex security engineering initiatives across multiple technology domains
• Design and implement mechanisms for security control enforcement, validation, and assessment
• Ensure system security, regulatory compliance, and risk posture across supported platforms
• Partner with architecture, application, infrastructure, and risk teams to identify and remediate control gaps
• Provide expert consultation on security design, threat modeling, and control effectiveness
• Support audits, risk assessments, and regulatory inquiries through defensible technical evidence
• Conduct technical analysis of security issues and recommend scalable engineering solutions
• Mentor engineers on secure design patterns and automation practices
• Collaborate with security leadership and governance teams to drive enterprise security outcomes

GenAI & Intelligent Security Capabilities

• Design and build GenAI‑assisted security analysis systems, including:
  • Control gap identification
  • Threat modeling augmentation
  • Security architecture analysis
  • Documentation and evidence correlation
• Integrate LLMs and AI services into security engineering workflows in a controlled and auditable manner
• Develop policy‑driven and control‑driven analysis pipelines to guide AI reasoning
• Implement guardrails to ensure:
  • Protection of sensitive data
  • Explainable and defensible outputs
  • Alignment to enterprise security policies
• Partner with risk, compliance, and governance teams to ensure AI-enabled tooling meets regulatory expectations

Secure Engineering & Governance

• Implement and maintain responsible AI safeguards within security tooling
• Ensure AI-enabled systems align with secure SDLC requirements and model governance expectations
• Support confidentiality, integrity, and availability objectives
• Participate in enterprise security standards, reference architectures, and design reviews
• Contribute to the evolution of security engineering automation and intelligence within the organization

This role is ideal for someone who:

• Thinks like a security engineer first
• Uses software engineering and AI as force multipliers
• Prioritizes defensibility, evidence, and control assurance over novelty
• Can translate across architecture, risk, security controls, and automation

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• Hands-on experience designing or implementing security controls within enterprise environments
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including design, testing, debugging, and automation

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building security automation platforms or tools
• Exposure to Generative AI, LLMs, or machine-assisted analysis in a security context
• Knowledge of threat modeling frameworks (e.g., STRIDE) and security control frameworks
• Experience working in regulated environments (financial services preferred)
• Familiarity with system architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and security evidence analysis
• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments

Job Expectations:

• Hybrid collaboration with cybersecurity, technology, risk, and compliance partners
• Commitment to ethical, defensible, and responsible use of AI in security operations

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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