Forward Deployed AI Security Lead

Overview Who we are Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment. Forward Deployed   AI   Security   Lead   Location: Plano, Texas   Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, ‘job flexibility benefits’ (also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability), etc. now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future. Who we are   Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like   at   Toyota. As one of the world's most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve.   We're   looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow.   with   us.   An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company —   delivering on   Toyota's vision to move people beyond   what's   possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experiences in an innovative, collaborative environment.   Who we’re looking for Toyota   Financial Services (TFS) Technology team is looking for a highly motivated person to fill a role as a Forward Deployed   AI   Security   Lead   within the   Security Intelligence Engineering   organization.   You'll   own the   intelligence   platform end-to-end: from API integrations with enterprise security tools, to a cross-source correlation engine, to an agentic AI layer that autonomously triages security findings at scale, to dashboards that deliver actionable intelligence to multiple security teams.   You'll   operate   at the intersection of security operations, AI/ML engineering, and cloud platform   development — embedding directly with security team leads to   understand   their workflows and building AI systems that transform them. This role follows the Forward Deployed Engineer model: you embed   with   internal security teams as your customers, deeply understand their operational reality, and build production systems that deliver measurable outcomes.   What   you'll   be doing   Embed directly with security team leads across multiple functions to deeply understand their workflows, tools, and pain points   Lead discovery sessions to   identify   high-value automation opportunities — translating security operations problems into AI-solvable technical specifications   Own the structured intake process: prioritize requests by cross-team impact and risk reduction value, communicate capacity and timelines transparently   Design and build multi-agent architectures using managed AI services — autonomous triage agents, cross-source correlation agents, and team-specific specialist agents   Implement RAG systems over a centralized security data lake for natural language threat hunting and investigation   Build prompt engineering patterns, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops that continuously improve agent accuracy   Design a model routing layer that directs each task to the   optimal   model based on complexity, latency, and cost   Implement centralized token usage monitoring and cost controls for leadership visibility   Own agent observability: monitoring for drift, hallucination detection, accuracy degradation, and failure mode identification   Architect human-in-the-loop controls and guardrails ensuring agents   operate   safely within defined boundaries   Design and build API connectors to enterprise security tools (EDR/XDR, cloud security, API security, identity, vulnerability management)   Architect the cross-source correlation engine that links findings across endpoint, cloud, identity, and network data   Define and evolve the data lake schema and ingestion pipelines for security telemetry   Build and   maintain   dashboards serving multiple security teams with team-specific views   Set engineering standards, code review practices, and architectural patterns as the team grows   Serve as the trusted technical advisor to security leadership — translating complex AI/ML capabilities into clear, actionable security outcomes   What you bring   5+ years building production systems, with strong Python and TypeScript fluency   1+ years hands-on experience with LLMs in production or near-production contexts — prompt engineering, RAG architectures, agentic workflows, or fine-tuning   Hands-on experience with security tool APIs — particularly EDR/XDR platforms    Strong AWS foundation: S3, Lambda, RDS, IAM, VPC, and familiarity with managed LLM services (e.g., Amazon Bedrock)   Understanding of security operations workflows — alert triage, invest