Company Description: ZySec AI builds the Sovereign Intelligence Stack—end-to-end AI infrastructure that organizations fully own and control. The company focuses on enabling mission-critical organizations to deploy AI strategically while preserving data ownership, regulatory compliance, and robust security. Its flagship platform, CyberPod, is an autonomous data intelligence solution built on RAG and agentic AI workflows, turning fragmented data into trusted, real-time insights with zero data exposure. Deployed in high-stakes environments, ZySec AI delivers private-by-design, resilient systems that unlock maximum value from existing data assets with minimal setup. The team is driven by the vision of a world where sovereign intelligence is trusted by design and retained within the organizations that create it.
Key Responsibilities
· This is a full-time, in office AI & Application Security Engineer role based in Hyderabad.
· Conduct penetration tests across web applications, APIs, internal/external infrastructure, and cloud and on-premise deployments




· Perform security assessments of AI systems - prompt injection (direct and indirect), jailbreak and guardrail bypass, system prompt extraction, RAG and knowledge-base poisoning, tool/agent abuse, insecure output handling, and sensitive data exposure
· Test the infrastructure underneath AI workloads: inference endpoints, vector databases, model registries, embedding pipelines, containers, and MLOps environments
· Review the AI supply chain - model provenance, third-party weights, dependencies, and deployment artefacts
· Perform secure code review and threat modelling for platform features prior to release
· Build automation and internal tooling to make testing repeatable - custom payload sets, CI-integrated security checks, and harnesses built on frameworks such as Garak, PyRIT, or Promptfoo
· Document findings with working proof-of-concepts, drive remediation with engineering, and validate fixes
· Map findings to OWASP Top 1

📌 AI & Application Security Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 ZySec AI
📍 Hyderabad