AI Data Protection Specialist

About the role

Applied Materials’ AI Data Protection Specialist drives secure, ethical AI by crafting policies, assessing risks, and embedding controls across Azure, AWS, and GCP AI platforms. The role partners with Information Security, Data Governance, and Legal to protect training data, prompts, embeddings, and model outputs, ensuring compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and emerging AI regulations. Based in Bangalore, India, the position is on-site with occasional travel and relocation support.

What you’ll do

• Develop AI data protection policies and procedures
• Enforce data governance for training and deployment datasets
• Maintain AI risk assessment documentation
• Implement anonymization, pseudonymization, and tokenization techniques
• Monitor data leakage risks in model outputs
• Investigate suspicious AI activity and data exfiltration
• Collaborate with cloud and application security teams
• Assess third‑party AI vendors for security posture

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or Data Science
• 5–10 years in security roles (AppSec, Cloud Sec, Data Protection)
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex
• Knowledge of GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, or equivalent regulations
• Certifications such as CISSP, CIPP/E, CISM, CDPSE

Skills

Benefits

• Supportive work culture
• Professional growth opportunities
• Health and wellbeing programs
• Competitive benefits
• Relocation assistance