Principal AI Technologist

Join Cyera as a Principal AI Technologist, where you will lead our AI security technical initiatives across strategic customers, field teams, and market-facing initiatives. This senior, field-facing role requires deep AI and security expertise, strong customer engagement skills, and technical storytelling abilities. You will work closely with various teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, and the Field CISO team, to shape how Cyera sells, demonstrates, and scales its AI security leadership.

• Serve as a senior AI security subject matter expert for customers, prospects, partners, and internal teams, articulating Cyera’s AI security vision and differentiated technical approach.
• Work directly with customer technical and executive stakeholders to understand AI initiatives, governance challenges, risk posture, and architectural requirements, leading AI-focused discovery sessions and technical deep dives.
• Design and deliver compelling AI security demos, solution narratives, and proof-of-value approaches that align with customer priorities, improving the technical rigor and repeatability of AI-focused POVs.
• Experience creating demos, POV strategies, technical assets, or enablement materials
• Proven ability to influence Product, PMM, and technical strategy through field insight and pattern recognition
• Strong customer-facing experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, data security, AI security, or adjacent domains
• Strong understanding of areas such as data security, DSPM, DLP, IAM, cloud security, AI application risk, model and data governance, and security architecture
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentations, workshops, and technical content review
• Significant experience in senior technical roles such as Principal Technologist, Principal Solutions Architect, AI Security Architect, Distinguished Sales Engineer, Field Architect, or similar
• Ability to turn complex technical concepts into clear business and technical value for customers
• Deep understanding of modern AI and GenAI environments, including enterprise AI adoption patterns, governance challenges, data exposure risks, and security controls
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with cross-functional ambiguity
• Experience engaging with both technical practitioners and senior stakeholders in complex enterprise environments
• Experience working with enterprise AI initiatives, AI governance programs, or AI security use cases in the field
• Background in data security, cloud security, AI security, DSPM, DLP, posture management, or related cybersecurity categories
• Familiarity with enterprise AI platforms and cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and modern SaaS ecosystems
• Experience working in or with high-growth startups
• Ability to travel as needed