Technology Fellow, Cybersecurity & AI Security
Role Overview
Senior-most technology individual contributor owning technical direction for cybersecurity and AI security across Invitation Homes.
Hands-on builder who writes code and ships; has executive-level influence and no direct reports.
Reports to the EVP and Chief Technology Officer and partners with the CISO, who owns the security program, risk posture, and security operations.
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Position overview
Senior-most technology individual contributor owning technical direction for cybersecurity and AI security across Invitation Homes.
Hands-on builder who writes code and ships; has executive-level influence and no direct reports.
Reports to the EVP and Chief Technology Officer and partners with the CISO, who owns the security program, risk posture, and security operations.
Key responsibilities
- Own enterprise security architecture and standards across cloud, platform, identity, data, and applications; serve as security authority on architecture review.
- Define AI and agentic system controls, including gateway access, authentication, policy, logging, guardrails, scoped identities, tool/MCP security, human approval, and containment.
- Lead threat modeling, secure design review, adversarial testing, and red-teaming; automate reviews and own CI/CD security gates.
- Set identity and access architecture, including phishing-resistant MFA, privileged and just-in-time access, workload identity, secrets, and auditable AI-agent identities.
- Drive cloud, Kubernetes, platform, and data security engineering, including policy as code, encryption, tokenization, posture management, and loss prevention.
- Lead technical response to major incidents and partner on detection engineering, AI telemetry, tabletop exercises, and purple-team exercises.
- Assess models, vendors, and integrations; include security requirements in contracts and designs; perform acquisition technical due diligence.
- Establish security engineering practices and metrics, champion security tooling, and develop reusable libraries, standards, training, and mentorship.
- Partner with CTO, CISO, Legal, and Compliance on technical controls related to SEC, SOX, PCI DSS, privacy, FCRA, and Fair Housing.
Required qualifications
- 15+ years in software engineering and cybersecurity, including 8+ years focused on security and recent hands-on production generative AI, LLM, or agentic security experience.
- Enterprise-scale security architecture authority experience in a regulated or public-company environment.
- Production-quality Python and at least one other language; built security tooling or automation and integrated controls into CI/CD.
- Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP and Kubernetes, with secure microservices and API design experience.
- Demonstrated measurable reduction of security review friction through automation without lowering security standards.
- Exceptional communication of technical risk to executives, boards, and engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: consumer platforms with payments, identity, or fraud exposure; IoT/smart-home security; or SEC registrant experience.
Core competencies
- Enterprise security architecture; AI and agentic systems security; secure SDLC and pipeline quality gates.
- Threat modeling and adversarial testing; identity, cloud, and data security; detection and incident response engineering.
- Security automation and tooling; regulatory and disclosure fluency; executive communication and engineering influence; technical mentorship.
Compensation
- Salary range is $211,650–$366,860, with potential eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus.
Benefits
- Benefits include annual bonus program, health, dental, vision and life insurance, disability coverage, paid time off, holidays, and 401(k) matching.
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