Job Opportunity for Security Engineer at Wadhwani AI in Delhi

Wadhwani AI is a non-profit applied AI institute that brings artificial intelligence technology to social challenges in low and middle-income countries. Through our solutions, AI becomes an enabling technology that bridges the gap between problems and solutions, augments human capabilities, and provides advanced decision support. We collaborate with social sector organizations, the government, domain experts, and academic institutions to identify real-world challenges, and create and deploy innovative AI solutions to reach intended users and beneficiaries – with the objective of creating sustainable, scalable impact.Currently, we are building AI-based solutions in the agriculture and health domains, such as pest management, maternal, newborn, and child health, tuberculosis, and COVID-19.Our projects are supported by leading philanthropies such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), USAID, and Google.org.Our accolades are as follows:
Wadhwani AI was the only Google AI impact challenge winner from India in 2019, and the first organization in the Asia Pacific to welcome a cohort of Google Fellows.
Our pest management solution, CottonAce earned an honorable mention at the Fast Company World Changing Awards 2021.
In April 2022, CottonAce was announced as one of the five winners of the Global Change Award (GCA) in 2022. The Global Change Award is an endeavor by the H&M Foundation to transform fashion and turn the entire industry planet positive.
Cultures page of Wadhwani AI – https://www.wadhwaniai.org/culture/

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with development teams to refine and roll out security policies and implement security controls, defensive programming practices, and guidelines
• You will be responsible for security testing of machine learning-based solutions to problems of societal importance. You will participate in the design, development, and testing of these solutions.
• Create guidelines for application, system, and network penetration testing for solutions, data pipelines, libraries, APIs, SDKs, and infrastructure
• Design automated and manual black-box, grey-box and white-box testing using pre-existing tools and by developing requisite test programs to augment existing tools
• Prepare detailed reports on findings, along with risk assessments, present these findings, and provide specific actionable recommendations for resolution.
• Analyze and document security incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and work with the development team on the resolution of information security incidents
• Conduct awareness programs for team members

REQUIREMENTS

• The candidate should have 5+ years of experience with penetration testing tools and frameworks
  Knowledge of application security standards such as OWASP, MITRE, and Information Security Management standards (ISMS) such as ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC are desired.
• Familiarity with forensic analysis malware, analysis, and static code analysis tools is a must
  Software development and automation experience is highly desired
• Candidates should be comfortable working with cross-functional teams, and must have excellent communication skills, and a track record of driving projects to completion.
• Candidates should have a Bachelors/Masters in any Engineering Discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience with open-source projects and high-performance systems is a plus.