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Location: Bangalore, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 15+ years

 

About kAIgentic

kAIgentic is a Singapore-headquartered startup, with presence across Singapore, India and Japan, on a mission to help enterprises evolve as fast as technology by turning their hidden know-how into safe, AI-powered operations. Most large organizations struggle to transform. Their tacit knowledge lives in people’s heads; systems are fragmented, and risk appetite is low. Our platform captures how work happens, designs better workflows, and runs them as governed by agentic operations. The result: organizations that continuously improve, instead of changing in slow, risky bursts.

We’re backed by SMBC Group as our founding partner and “customer zero”, and our platform is already being proven in one of the world’s most complex, regulated environments. That gives us access to real problems, real data, and real impact from Day 1.

 

The Role

As Principal Engineer on the Security & Compliance team, you will be kAIgentic's highest technical authority on security architecture—defining how we prove to global banking regulators that agentic AI can be trusted with their most sensitive workflows and delivering the systems that make that proof credible. This role combines the depth of a platform security architect with the domain mastery of a banking compliance expert and the forward-looking perspective needed to define security standards for a category of systems—agentic AI—that regulators are still learning to assess. You will define how we build security in, not on, and you will build it.

 

What You'll Do

• Own kAIgentic's security architecture vision across all deployment regions, setting the multi-year roadmap for how the platform earns and maintains trust with banking regulators globally
• Define the compliance-by-design philosophy—the architectural principles, engineering patterns, and governance frameworks that make auditability intrinsic rather than bolted on
• Solve the hardest unsolved security problems in agentic AI: LLM context isolation between tenants, prompt injection at scale, audit integrity for non-deterministic AI actions, and cryptographic proof of compliance for regulators
• Establish kAIgentic's security identity externally—at regulatory consultations, banking CISO forums, and in the agentic AI security research community
• Serve as kAIgentic's primary technical representative in regulatory examinations, banking security due diligence, and external audit processes
• Set org-wide secure development standards and security culture across all engineering teams
• Mentor Staff and Lead Engineers on security architecture, threat modeling, and compliance frameworks
• Optionally lead a small embedded security engineering crew (2–4 engineers) executing your most critical security platform programs, with technical direction owned by you and people management owned by the engineering manager

 

What You'll Bring

• 15+ years in security engineering with deep experience in financial services or equivalently regulated industries
• Recognized technical authority in security architecture—demonstrated through regulatory engagement, industry publications, CVE research, or equivalent demonstrated impact
• AI-native velocity as a default mode of working (mandatory)
• Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python
• Deep expertise in 5+ of the following:
  • Bank-grade security architecture for global multi-jurisdictional deployments
  • Multitenant isolation architecture at data, compute, and network layers
  • Compliance frameworks across jurisdictions: SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, MAS TRM, FISC, FCA, OCC, GDPR, AI Act
  • AI/ML security including prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, and LLM context isolation
  • Cryptographic systems architecture including key hierarchy design, rotation policies, and HSM integration
  • Audit infrastructure for regulated environments including immutable logging and cryptographic audit proofs
  • Identity and access management architecture for complex enterprise multi-tenancy
  • Cloud security architecture at scale including Kubernetes hardening, service mesh security, and network policy design
• Proven track record of leading security architecture through regulatory examination in banking or similarly regulated industries
• Experience representing security posture directly to banking regulators (MAS, FCA, FSA, OCC, or equivalent)
• Deep understanding of agentic AI security as a distinct threat landscape, not just traditional application security applied to AI

 

Why join kAIgentic?

We’re a global team of builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about customers, and believe in the power of AI to reshape enterprise work.

We look for people who:

• Bring technical excellence and customer empathy together.
• Are entrepreneurial and excited to work on zero-to-one problems.
• Lead with ownership, integrity, and collaboration.
• want to shape not just a product, but a new category of enterprise AI.

Working here means being surrounded by peers who challenge assumptions, celebrate progress, and build with courage and care.

 

What It Feels Like to Work at kAIgentic?  

• Innovation at Scale: Combine startup agility with enterprise-grade challenges.
• Ownership from Day One. Your work directly shapes product, culture, and customer outcomes.
• Learning & Growth – Work with seasoned leaders (ex-Microsoft, AWS, UiPath, Wipro, GE, Genpact) who’ve built and scaled global businesses.
• A culture of trust and psychological safety where experimentation is encouraged.
• Global collaboration across Singapore, India, Japan, Europe, and the US.

A shared mission to build something the world hasn’t seen before: AI Agents that continuously improve how enterprises run.

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