AI Detect and Respond Engineer

Company Overview Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

We are seeking a talented and proactive AI Detect and Respond Engineer to join our team. This position is focused on defending the organization against AI-enabled threats and leveraging AI to enhance our defensive capabilities. You will act as the bridge between AI security and our operational defense teams (SOC & CSIRT, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence). In this role, you will focus on the threats introduced by LLM and agentic systems, including, but not limited to, prompt injection and indirect prompt injection, unsafe or over-permissioned tool and MCP integrations, agent hijacking and privilege escalation, unintended autonomous actions, and data exfiltration through model inputs and outputs. You will build the detection and monitoring capability that makes this activity visible to our defenders, and design the controls that contain it. You will also implement AI-powered tooling that improves the speed and efficacy of our threat detection and response workflows. This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Sr Director of AI & Data Security.

Monitor the threat landscape for emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) targeting LLM and agentic systems, including new prompt injection and jailbreak methods, tool and MCP abuse, and agent-to-agent attack patterns Build monitoring and visibility for LLM and agent activity, including prompt and response logging, tool invocation and MCP call telemetry, and audit trails sufficient to investigate agent actions after the fact Own the configuration and ongoing management of AI protection platforms such as AI Guardrails, including policy authoring, prompt and response inspection rules, and enforcement for sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage Collaborate with environment owners and Security Tooling teams to implement model security scanning capabilities to ensure coverage and provide ongoing maintenance Extend AI detection and enforcement coverage across our Azure and AWS environments, including cloud-native AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI Service, Amazon Bedrock) and their associated logging and audit telemetry Collaborate with the Detection and Response teams to develop playbooks and detection logic for AI based risks and attacks, prompt injection, elevation of privilege, data exfiltration, etc Partner with Threat Intelligence teams to track threat actors leveraging LLMs for code generation, exploit development, or reconnaissance Translate technical AI security risks into business impact and communicate recommendations to operational stakeholders Job Designation Hybrid: Employee divides their time between in-office and remote work. Access to an office location is required. (Frequency: Minimum 2 days per week; may vary by team but will be weekly in-office expectation) Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law. What you bring Basic 5+ years of experience in a Detection and Response engineering role, with at least 1 year focused on AI/ML systems Experience