# AI & Automation Engineer

Role Summary The Senior AI Engineer leads technical design and delivery of AI automation across multiple Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows and services. You will remain hands-on while shaping technical approach, resolving ambiguous requirements, and building capabilities other engineers can reuse. You will partner across teams to improve investigation quality and response time and establish engineering standards. What You Will Do Lead complex initiatives spanning diverse security services teams; resolve design tradeoffs and implement critical components using large language models (LLMs), agents, and retrieval pipelines. Define reusable architecture for agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool integrations; choose deterministic or model-driven approaches based on evidence, risk, and cost. Establish evaluation methods and release criteria across workflows, covering factual accuracy, reliability, false positives, and regressions against validated evidence. Design consistent controls for least-privilege access, sensitive data, prompt injection, output validation, and analyst approval of high-impact response actions. Lead SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, threat intelligence,

- **Id**: 3821622
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sophos-ai-automation-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Romania
- **Countries**: RO
- **Hiring countries**: RO
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T15:51:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:47:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3315
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Endpoint Security, Managed Security

## Company

- **Id**: 1926
- **Name**: Sophos
- **Domain**: sophos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sophos>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.75
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 77
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SIEM** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: yes
- **MITRE ATT&CK** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **Windows** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T17:28:19Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 10
- **Expected fill days**: 77
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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