Lead AI Security Engineer, AI Identities (Pune)

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, easy, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead AI Security Engineer, AI Identities Job Description Summary As an Information Security Engineer AI Identity Security, you will be responsible for securing the identities associated with AI systems, including models, agents, services, pipelines, and nonhuman actors that interact with data, infrastructure, and other systems. This role focuses on the discovery, lifecycle management, control enforcement, and monitoring of AI identities to ensure they are properly governed, leastprivileged, and continuously assessed for risk. Key Responsibilities AI Identity Discovery & Inventory Design and operate mechanisms to discover and inventory AI identities, including: o AI models, agents, and autonomous workflows o Service accounts, nonhuman identities, and API principals used by AI systems o Identities created dynamically through AI pipelines, orchestration tools, and integrations Maintain authoritative visibility into where AI identities exist, what they can access, and how they are used across environments. Integrate AI identity discovery into broader identity, asset, and AI Security Posture Management (AISPM) capabilities. AI Identity Lifecycle Management Define and operationalize lifecycle controls for AI identities, including creation, modification, rotation, suspension, and decommissioning. Ensure AI identities are created with strong provenance, ownership, and accountability, including linkage to business and technical owners. Im .