Principal RAI Industry Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Principal RAI Industry Specialist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

Job ID: | Amazon.com Services LLC

As a Principal RAI Industry Specialist in AWS Compliance & Security Assurance, you’ll lead strategic efforts in building innovative solutions for addressing responsible AI development across Amazon. You’ll work with security engineers and other security experts to deliver innovative solutions at a massive scale. Our services help protect Amazon for all customers, preserving our customers’ trust in us. You will get to use the full power and breadth of Amazon technologies to build solutions that proactively protect our customers.

Candidates are expected to have a track record of delivering high-quality results in a fast-moving environment. We need someone who’s comfortable building solutions, delivering results, and leading by example. The team's services operate at a large scale and on critical workloads, so good security judgement and a passion and discipline for operational excellence are key.

Key job responsibilities

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role with responsibility across all of Amazon. You will have the opportunity to lead strategies to build solutions that are appropriate to meet security, data governance, and responsible AI expectations at scale. You will work directly with AWS service teams, security operations, and infrastructure teams to continually identify, refine, and develop new ideas and opportunities for improving Amazon's security and responsible AI posture.

About the team

Diverse Experiences: Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture: In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance: We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Security, Computer Science, Risk Management, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related discipline, or equivalent technology experience
• Knowledge of the ethical considerations surrounding AI in the legal context, such as confidentiality, accuracy, and bias prevention
• 6+ years of IT security audit, data governance, compliance and/or relevant regulatory experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with complex commercial/legal concepts and drafting, ability to quickly read and interpret legal terminology and reasoning

Compensation & Benefits

USA, NY, New York – 156,200.00 – 273,300.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D, supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.