$450K. The job didn't exist 24 months ago. Every Fortune 500 is hiring. Episode three of TechUpdates Special Series. AI bug bounties have crossed six figures for a single prompt injection. Frontier labs run model evaluation contests with prize pools in the hundreds of thousands. Two years ago the title "AI Security Engineer" was on zero org charts. Today it's on most of them. What you'll hear: • What an AI security engineer actually does — red-team LLMs, secure RAG pipelines, defend training data and weights, write guardrails • Compensation in price discovery — Fortune 500 $180–250K, big tech $350–500K, frontier labs $700K–$1M+ • The full attack surface: prompt injection, indirect prompt injection, embedding exfiltration, training data poisoning, weight theft, agentic misalignment • A real day — jailbreak harness, code review of an agent, adversar ...