Why College Board
FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filedConnects students to higher education and career opportunities through college readiness programs, standardized testing like the SAT, Advanced Placement courses, and financial aid planning resources.
- Advanced Placement Program Founded in 1955, the Advanced Placement program gives students the opportunity to take college-level coursework and exams in high school. Students who succeed on AP exams are more likely to succeed in college and can potentially earn…$453.3M spent in FY2024
- SAT Suite of Assessments College Board's SAT Suite, which includes the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9, measures what research shows students need to succeed after high school. It also connects students with fee waivers, scholarship opportunities, free, personalized…$203.7M spent in FY2024
- College and Career Opportunities and Enrollment By connecting students to colleges and scholarships, and providing access to credit programs, planning tools, and fee waivers for all who need them, College Board is increasing opportunities and breaking down barriers to college…$121.8M spent in FY2024
Before you apply
FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the orgAbout the role
The org's own posting, as writtenCollege Board – Technology – Risk Engineering Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). Type: This is a full-time position About the Team College Board’s Enterprise Security Engineering (ESE) team currently consists of 6 full-time staff and additional contractors. ESE is responsible for implementing and managing cutting-edge security solutions and tools. We protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data and endpoints across physical and cloud environments.
We protect workloads and data in AWS and Azure, corporate networks, user endpoints around the country and data in SaaS and PaaS environments. We enable our developers and colleagues to deliver new, secure digital offerings that include the Digital SAT and AP exams. The work we perform supports the College Board’s mission to connect students to college success and opportunity. College Board is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members feel valued, respected, and supported in their work. We welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to join our team and contribute to our ongoing success.
About the Opportunity
As a Lead AI Risk Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for how College Board identifies, reviews, and manages risk across its technology systems. College Board's technology footprint spans cloud infrastructure, vendor and API integrations, identity and access for automated systems, and an expanding set of AI and agentic capabilities — and the organization needs a consistent, repeatable practice for assessing risk across all of it, not AI alone. This role exists to build and lead that practice.
You will work within an existing security engineering team and across the Technology division to run risk reviews of new and existing systems, define controls and identity practices for automated and machine-driven access (including AI agents and non-human identities where relevant), and partner with stakeholders across the organization to bring security into decisions early. You will not only execute this work — you will shape the standards, patterns, and practices that let others execute it consistently, and you will lift the engineers around you through mentoring, paired reviews, and shared knowledge rather than becoming a single point of expertise.
This is a role for a technical leader comfortable operating across team and service boundaries, spanning risk domains where standards are still maturing — from cloud and vendor risk to identity and access for automated systems to emerging technologies such as agentic AI. You will contribute to the strategic direction of the risk engineering program — identifying risks and opportunities that influence roadmap decisions — while remaining hands-on in reviews, threat modeling, and control design. Your impact will be measured in durable outcomes: reviews that are…
About College Board
From its Form 990- Budget $1.17B · Education
- Staff 1,968 · founded 1900
- Pays its leaders $465K–$2.0M (12 reported)
- Open jobs 44 · Jobs at College Board · Full 990 report