AI security engineer: complete definition in AI for SMEs

An AI security engineer is the specialist who designs and implements protection measures specific to Artificial Intelligence systems: prompt injection defense, API key security, training and inference data encryption, anomaly detection in model behavior and compliance with applicable security standards.

What it changes for an SME

AI security is a specific domain that goes beyond classical cybersecurity:

• a prompt injection can extract internal data via your customer chatbot;
• model extraction can reproduce a model trained on proprietary data;
• a data leak via an employee pasting information into an unsecured LLM.

The profile to look for

In SMEs, the AI security engineer is almost never a dedicated position. Security is covered by the existing IT lead (for classical security) and by the AI consultant or fractional AI director (for AI-specific risks). The point is not to ignore these risks because they are not "classical." In fractional AI leadership, we integrate AI security into every deployment.