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Principal Security Engineer

United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead deep technical security reviews of products, services, infrastructure, and emerging technologies using AI-enabled methods to identify attack paths and convert them into detections and controls.

Role type

Principal Security Engineer (AI/Threat Intelligence)

Builds

Security tools, automation, prototypes, reusable engineering patterns, and scalable security capabilities integrated into engineering systems.

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure, Threat Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Threat modeling, architecture analysis, adversarial testing, source review, telemetry analysis, detection engineering, incident investigation, secure defaults design, cross-team technical leadership, mentoring

Preferred skills

Agentic software engineering practices, AI-enabled security methods, threat hunting, adversary simulation

Technologies

Python, C#, C++, Go, Java, Rust, TypeScript, SIEM, SOC tools

Responsibilities

Conduct deep technical security reviews using AI-enabled methods; build and maintain security tools and automation; partner with product and research teams to implement security improvements; integrate automated security checks and guardrails into engineering systems; use threat intelligence and incident learning to improve preventive and detective controls; lead complex cross-team technical initiatives and mentor engineers.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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