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We have accumulated decades of threat intelligence - across endpoint protection, vulnerability research, and large-scale XDR telemetry - and we are now building the AI-native systems that encode, amplify, and operationalize that expertise at scale.\nWe are looking for a Principal AI Architect who brings deep security domain instinct, production AI/ML experience, and the external credibility to represent Trend Micro’s technical thinking at the world’s most demanding security venues.\nThis is not a delivery role. You are the technical conscience of AI integration across the organization - reviewing proposals, shaping architecture, distilling security expertise into AI-legible systems, and ensuring that AI adoption genuinely improves how engineers and products work. You will be embedded in one of three domain tracks (see the end of this document), each with distinct technical depth and external focus.\nCore Responsibilities\nAI Architecture\nOwn the architectural vision for how AI/ML integrates into your domain’s product stack - on-device inference, cloud-assisted pipelines, and agentic decision workflows.\nDefine tradeoff frameworks for AI capabilities within real production constraints: resource budgets, latency, evasion resistance, and platform-specific requirements\nAssess and review AI feature proposals for architectural soundness, data dependency risks, and long-term maintainability\nIdentify where consolidation or modernization initiatives create AI architecture opportunities - and where they introduce risk\nDesign the boundary between automated AI decision-making and human expert judgment in critical workflows\nKnowledge Distillation\nWork directly with senior engineers, threat researchers, and domain experts to extract tacit expertise and encode it into AI-legible form.\nTranslate behavioral heuristics, detection intuition, and domain-specific patterns into model training signals, evaluation suites, and agentic decision frameworks\nBuild evaluation frameworks that test whether AI systems actually replicate expert judgment - not just surface-level pattern matching\nPrevent knowledge loss as senior experts transition - systematically encoding expertise that currently retires with the person\nAI Adoption Quality\nDefine what meaningful AI adoption looks like for engineering and research teams - beyond token usage, into workflow integration and architectural thinking.\nBuild evaluation frameworks that engineering leadership can act on\nIdentify engineers and teams who are genuinely advancing AI-native development and help systematize what they are doing\nAdvise on AI tooling that genuinely accelerates work, and flag where AI introduces risk rather than leverage\nExternal Representation\nRepresent Trend Micro R&D at the industry venues most relevant to your domain - GTC, Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, AWS re:Inforce, Pwn2Own, and academic/standards forums.\nContribute to external discourse through technical blog posts, conference presentations, and original research\nEngage with MITRE ATLAS, OWASP frameworks, and relevant standards bodies to shape how AI security practices are defined\nOperate as a technical peer to CTO-level counterparts at partners, customers, and the Anthropic enterprise relationship\nWhat You Bring\nSecurity Domain Depth\nHands-on background in a security engineering or research discipline - endpoint platforms, vulnerability research, threat intelligence, or cloud/XDR architecture\nDeep understanding of the internals of at least one major security domain at production scale\nHas shipped or contributed to real security systems with real-world constraints\nAI / Agentic Fluency\nProduction experience with SLM/LLM integration, agentic workflow design, or multi-model systems\nCan reason about inference tradeoffs - latency, privacy, accuracy, evasion resistance - in context\nUnderstands the full AI pipeline: data, model, integration, deployment, monitoring\nIndependent Judgment\nPushes back when architecture doesn’t hold up - not swayed by schedule pressure or demo quality\nRepresents engineering truth, not the convenient answer\nComfortable being the neutral technical voice in rooms where everyone else has a delivery stake\nExternal Credibility\nHas spoken at, published in, or contributed to recognized security or AI venues\nRecognized - or on a clear trajectory to be recognized - as a technical voice in the field\nWhat This Role Is Not\nNot a team lead or delivery owner\nNot a hands-on daily coder of production systems\nNot a pure ML researcher - training models from scratch is not the focus\nNot a sales or pre-sales function\nNice to Have\nExperience with adversarial ML, model integrity, or AI system threat modeling\nFamiliarity with AI-native security product development\nPrior work at or collaboration with TrendLabs, ZDI, or equivalent threat research organizations\nPublished CVEs, conference papers, or open source security tooling\nBackground spanning both offensive security and AI/ML systems\nDomain Tracks\nThis role has three domain tracks. Candidates will be placed in one based on background and organizational fit. All tracks share the same seniority, scope, and reporting structure - the difference is the security domain and the external community each person represents.\nEndpoint Security - AI architecture for endpoint agent consolidation, on-device inference, and Windows/Linux platform integration. External focus: GTC, Black Hat, DEF CON, Pwn2Own.\nThreat Intelligence - Knowledge distillation from TrendLabs and ZDI researchers, AI-assisted vulnerability analysis, and threat research × AI architecture. External focus: Pwn2Own, Black Hat, DEF CON, academic security research.\nCloud / XDR - AI integration across XDR correlation, CNAPP/CSPM pipelines, and large-scale security telemetry. External focus: AWS re:Inforce, Google Next Security, RSA, GTC.\nThe hiring process will clarify which track is the best fit. 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