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Our AI agents automate security operations and provide customers with 10x leverage across critical security workflows. Our initial use cases include:AI-based SOC alert triage and investigation\nAI-based Threat Hunting\nAI-based Penetration Testing Founded by repeat successful security founders, Simbian brings together a strong team of engineers, security experts, and operators working on some of the hardest problems at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI. Our core values are excellence, replication, and intellectual honesty. We believe in building exceptional technology, sharing what we learn, and being honest about what works-and what doesn't. The Role We are looking for an Applied AI Engineer to help build the systems that make our AI agents powerful, reliable, and useful in real-world cybersecurity environments. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, distributed systems, and applied AI. You will build the backend infrastructure that powers our agents while also working directly on agent behavior-improving how agents reason, use tools, retrieve context, handle failures, and complete complex tasks. The goal isn't simply to build models or backend services in isolation. It's to turn AI capabilities into dependable production systems that solve real customer problems. You'll work closely with research, engineering, product, and security teams to take ideas from experimentation to production and measure whether they improve agent performance.\nRequirements Applied AI & Agent Systems\nDesign and iterate on AI agent behaviors across real-world cybersecurity and software engineering workflows.\nBuild multi-step agent workflows with tool calling, branching logic, retries, validation, and human-in-the-loop controls.\nDevelop tool schemas, execution strategies, context construction, memory, and retrieval mechanisms that improve agent performance.\nExperiment with prompting, model-facing strategies, tool-use patterns, and context engineering.\nAnalyze agent failures and systematically turn failure modes into product and engineering improvements.\nBuild guardrails, policy layers, and safe-execution mechanisms for agents operating in security-sensitive environments.\nHelp define what \"good\" looks like for an agent completing complex tasks end-to end. Evaluation & Agent Performance\nDesign and run evaluations to measure agent quality, reliability, regressions, and edge cases.\nBuild evaluation pipelines, test harnesses, scoring frameworks, and golden datasets.\nCreate feedback loops that bring real-world task data and production failures back into evaluation and development.\nAnalyze production traces and agent behavior to identify opportunities for improving solve rate, usefulness, and reliability.\nWork with research and engineering teams to translate experimental improvements into measurable production gains. Backend & Distributed Systems\nDesign and build scalable backend services that power AI agents and cybersecurity workflows.\nBuild high-scale, multi-tenant systems that securely support multiple customer environments.\nWork with microservices, asynchronous execution, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.\nBuild ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and agent-memory layers for large volumes of security data.\nDesign reliable execution systems with strong observability, traceability, monitoring, and data-quality guarantees.\nBuild and maintain integrations with enterprise security platforms such as SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and NDR systems.\nOwn features end-to-end-from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, debugging, and iteration in production. Product & Cross-functional Collaboration\nWork closely with product, research, infrastructure, and security teams to turn ambiguous problems into working systems.\nPartner with customer-facing teams to understand real-world failures and improve the product based on user needs.\nHelp shape the interfaces and workflows through which users interact with AI agents.\nContribute to architectural decisions and technical direction as the platform evolves\nHave 5-8 years of software engineering experience, with strong backend development experience.\nHave experience building and shipping ML/LLM-powered products or AI-enabled features, or have strong hands-on experience applying LLMs to real engineering problems.\nAre highly proficient in Python and comfortable working with modern AI/ML tooling.\nHave strong fundamentals in distributed systems, backend architecture, APIs, microservices, and asynchronous systems.\nHave experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, model evaluation, or agentic systems.\nThink beyond model metrics and engineering elegance-you care about whether the system actually works for users.\nEnjoy debugging messy, real-world failures and turning them into systematic improvements.\nAre comfortable working in ambiguous environments and taking ownership from problem definition → implementation → production.\nHave a strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals and write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.\nEnjoy reading technical papers, RFCs, experimenting with new technologies, and learning quickly. Must Have\n4-7 years of professional software engineering experience.\nStrong backend development experience, preferably with Python, Go, or Node.js.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.\nExperience with microservices, APIs, asynchronous execution, and event-driven systems.\nHands-on experience with LLMs / Generative AI / Applied AI.\nExperience with at least some of: o Prompt engineering o RAG o Embeddings / vector databases o LLM evaluation o Tool calling / function calling o Agent frameworks\nExperience building and deploying production software.\nStrong problem-solving and debugging skills.\nOwnership mindset and ability to take a problem from zero to shipped. Bonus / Great to Have\nExperience building AI agents or tool-using LLM systems.\nExperience with LangGraph, LangChain, or similar agent frameworks.\nExperience with model evaluation, fine-tuning, or code-generation models.\nExperience building developer tooling or AI coding systems.\nExperience with cybersecurity products, particularly SIEM, SOAR, EDR, NDR, or security data pipelines.\nExperience with AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.\nExperience building evaluation frameworks, benchmark datasets, or automated testing systems for AI agents.\nExperience with agent observability, tracing, and production LLM monitoring.\nStrong academic background in Computer Science or a related field; graduates from IITs or other top-tier engineering institutions preferred.\nBenefits\nBuild an AI-first cybersecurity platform from the ground up.\nWork at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and distributed systems.\nSolve problems where there isn't always an obvious playbook.\nWork directly with founders, researchers, security experts, and engineering leaders.\nOwn meaningful problems end-to-end and see your work go directly into production.\nBe part of an early team where your technical decisions and ideas can have outsized impact.\n• Ship fast, learn fast, and build systems that matter.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7234,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Cybersecurity","AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-07T08:31:15Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":13,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.471,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":76,"expected_fill_days":35,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-25T05:49:26Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/simbian-applied-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/simbian-applied-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-25T20:48:36Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":29391,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-26T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":177904},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=177904"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsimbian-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsimbian-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsimbian-applied-ai-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/simbian-applied-ai-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsimbian-applied-ai-engineer"}]}