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Progress starts with you.\nJob Description\nRole Summary:\nWe are seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build next-generation cybersecurity AI products for enterprise security teams.\nThis is a hands-on individual contributor role for an engineer who combines strong AI engineering capability, practical software development skills, and a strong interest in cybersecurity. You will report to the Director, Cybersecurity AI Product and work as part of a newly formed product development team focused on building and operating agentic solutions that help users investigate threats, triage alerts, automate security workflows, analyze vulnerabilities, and make better security decisions.\nThe ideal candidate is AI-native, product-minded, proactive, and comfortable working through ambiguity. You should be able to learn quickly, experiment with new AI technologies, build reliable product features, and translate customer problems into practical AI-driven solutions.\nThis role requires hands-on experience with LLM applications, agentic AI systems, retrieval-augmented generation, tool orchestration, context management, model evaluation, cloud-native software engineering, APIs, and secure software development. Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts, security operations, cloud security, or threat intelligence is strongly preferred.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDesign and Build Advanced Cybersecurity AI Products\nBuild agentic AI workflows for various cybersecurity operations, engineering, and risk processes.\nConvert ambiguous product ideas and early prototypes into secure, maintainable, production-grade AI systems\nTake end-to-end Technical Ownership of Complex AI Product Components, from problem framing to production operation.\nBreak down ambiguous problems into technical plans, milestones, risks, and deliverables\nContribute to technical roadmaps and influence prioritization through evidence, customer feedback, and engineering principles\nIdentify design gaps, tech-debts, scalability risks, and make sound engineering trade-offs.\nResearch, Evaluate, and Operationalized Emerging AI Technologies\nContinuously Learn, Research and Evaluate Emerging AI technologies\nTranslate research findings into practical implementation patterns, product features, internal recommendations, or technical standards\nShare findings through technical documentation, demos, internal talks or fast POCs\nBuild Production-Grade AI Products\nDevelop backend services, APIs, integrations, AI orchestration, data pipelines, and other software components.\nSupport deployment, monitoring, debugging, and operational support of AI products\nWork with CI/CD pipelines, containers, infrastructure as code, logging, metrics, and automated testing\nDesign systems that scale across customers, workloads, data sources, and platforms\nInfluence Through Technical Excellence\nProvide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and example implementations\nMentor less experienced engineers informally through strong engineering practice and clear reasoning\nRaise the quality of team decisions by bringing evidence, research, customer context, and practical trade-off analysis\nCommunicate complex AI, security, and architecture concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders\nCollaborate with product, security, solution engineering, and customer-facing teams to ensure product capabilities address real customer workflows\nDemonstrate ownership, proactiveness, customer obsession, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguity\nVisa requires at least 3 days in office, expectations of these days will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nExperience\n5+ years of professional experience in AI engineering and software engineering.\n3+ years of hands-on experience building AI/ML, LLM-based, automation, data-driven, or intelligent software systems.\nExperience building production software, not only prototypes or notebooks.\nExperience working in product engineering teams or delivering customer-facing technical solutions.\nAI Engineering:\nStrong practical experience with LLM applications, AI workflow automation, AI assistants, copilots, or agentic AI systems.\nFamiliarity with concepts such as:Prompt engineering\nSystem prompts and instruction design\nRetrieval-augmented generation\nVector search\nEmbeddings\nTool calling\nFunction orchestration\nContext management\nAgent memory\nEvaluation datasets\nModel benchmarking\nFeedback loops\n\nExperience with agentic AI frameworks or tools such as:LangChain\nLlamaIndex\nSemantic Kernel\nAutoGen\nCrewAI\nVector databases\nKnowledge graphs\nModel evaluation frameworks\n\nAbility to evaluate AI outputs objectively and improve quality, safety, reliability, latency, and cost.\nExperience using commercial or open-source AI models and APIs.\nDemonstrated ability to use AI tools in everyday work for coding, debugging, research, documentation, testing, or productivity improvement.\nSoftware Engineering:\nStrong programming ability in two or more languages such as:Python\nTypeScript / Node.js\nGo\nJava\nRust\n\nStrong understanding of software architecture, API design, data modeling, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, observability, and maintainability\nExperience building backend services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, or cloud-native applications.\nFamiliarity with web applications, distributed systems, databases, CI/CD pipelines, logging, monitoring, and automated testing.\nAbility to write clean, maintainable, secure, and production-ready code.\nExperience participating in design reviews, code reviews, and production troubleshooting.\nCybersecurity and Secure AI Awareness:\nWorking knowledge of cybersecurity principles, secure software development, and common vulnerabilities.\nAbility to assess security implications of AI-enabled workflows and software architecture decisions.\nInterest and ability to deepen cybersecurity domain expertise quickly.\nAwareness of AI-specific security risks, including prompt injection, data leakage, hallucination, adversarial inputs, unsafe tool execution, and excessive permissions.\nCloud and Infrastructure:\nExperience developing or deploying applications on cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Microsoft Azure.\nFamiliarity with containers, serverless services, managed databases, event-driven systems, queues, object storage, and cloud identity concepts.\nUnderstanding of observability, deployment automation, environment configuration, and operational reliability.\nAwareness of cloud security principles, IAM, secrets management, and secure configuration.\nLeadership Qualities:\nStrong ownership mindset and accountability for outcomes.\nProactive approach to identifying problems and proposing solutions.\nCustomer-obsessed mindset with focus on practical user value.\nComfortable dealing with ambiguity and evolving requirements.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills.\nClear written and verbal communication skills.\nStrong habit of continuous learning, experimentation, and knowledge sharing.\nAbility to work independently and collaborate 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