Hiring: Principle, Vulnerability Analyst Company: Mastercard Location: O'Fallon, MO Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 18:23:42 Target Skills & Keywords : OWASP About the job Required Skills: •Lead and oversee turning AI-identified security findings into validated, prioritized, and remediated risk reduction across Mastercard’s software environment. Qualifications: •Strong experience in vulnerability management, application security, secure software development, or security engineering, with demonstrated ability to validate and drive remediation of software vulnerabilities. •Comprehensive expertise in common vulnerability classes, secure coding practices, OWASP, CWE, CVSS, exploitability analysis, threat modeling, and risk-based prioritization. •Demonstrated capacity to work directly with application teams to explain vulnerabilities, recommend practical fixes, resolve disagreements, and drive remediation to completion. •Strong analytical judgment to evaluate AI-generated findings, identify false positives, determine missing context, and distinguish theoretical risk from exploitable risk. •Operational familiarity with AI-assisted security workflows, including how model-generated findings can be validated, enriched, prioritized, and improved through analyst feedback. •Demonstrated capacity to communicate complex vulnerability details clearly to developers, product owners, security leaders, and non-technical stakeholders. •Strong written documentation skills, including the ability to produce validation notes, remediation guidance, risk narratives, executive summaries, and operational playbooks. •Strong leadership qualities, including mentoring, influencing without authority, driving accountability, and creating repeatable processes for others to follow. •Comfortable working in ambiguous, evolving environments where new AI-enabled workflows, tools, and processes are being developed and refined. •Demonstrated capacity to identify process improvements that reduce remediation friction, improve customer experience, and increase the quality and speed of vulnerability closure. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!