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Principal Engineer, Security AI Tooling and Automation

Chicago, Illinois, USFull-time2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Build and maintain agentic AI automation frameworks and orchestration layers for end-to-end security workflows, integrating security data sources and automating remediation tracking.

Role type

Principal Engineer, Security AI Tooling and Automation

Builds

Agentic AI automation frameworks, security tooling, vulnerability intelligence interfaces, remediation-tracking integrations, and operator-facing dashboards.

Domain

Cyber Defense / Security Engineering / AI Automation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Agentic AI systems design, LLM-powered automation frameworks, API integration, data pipeline engineering, CI/CD pipeline engineering, observability, state management, retry logic, failure handling, security engineering fundamentals, systems thinking

Preferred skills

Security tooling development, vulnerability-intelligence platforms, container and image hardening, infrastructure as code, runtime security instrumentation, open-source security tooling, financial services experience

Technologies

Python, Go

Responsibilities

Build and maintain the agentic automation framework for tool invocation and orchestration; Own internal security tooling development including dashboards and integrations; Integrate disparate security data sources via APIs and normalization pipelines; Automate remediation initiation and tracking; Embed security automation into CI/CD pipelines; Ensure production reliability of the tooling stack; Operate as a practitioner-leader setting technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship