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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
In this role, you will:
Design, implement and operate AI safety detectors for enterprise AI use cases, including prompt injection and jailbreak detection, personally identifiable information and sensitive data detection, data leakage prevention, content safety and harmful content detection, policy violation checks,



system prompt leakage detection, and agent or tool-use risk controls.
Implement detector pipelines using a combination of rules, machine learning models, LLM-based evaluators, and third-party safety services, with explicit interfaces, confidence scoring and policy-driven actions.
Deliver evaluation workflows for guardrails, including offline test sets, online validation, threshold tuning, regression checks, and false positive and false negative analysis to measure detector effectiveness in production.
Design end-to-end protection patterns for enterprise retrieval-augmented generation, coding assistants and agent systems across upload, retrieval, prompt, response, logging and tool execution layers.
Build policy enforcement and decisioning services that support configurable actions such as allow, block, redact, mask, escalate for review or require human approval.
Build observability and governance capabilit

📌 AI safety (Hyderabad)
🏢 HSBC
📍 Hyderabad