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Principal Agentic AI Security Engineer

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-10 → 2026-09-25

Core

Architect, build, and ship autonomous agentic AI systems for security operations, including detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting.

Role type

Principal Agentic AI Security Engineer (hands-on IC)

Builds

Autonomous AI agent systems for security operations, secure agent-to-agent communication frameworks, and adversarial test tools

Domain

Cybersecurity + Agentic AI

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, software engineering for production systems, security operations, application security, threat intelligence, vulnerability research, detection engineering, offensive security, cloud security, building AI agents at scale, agentic coding tools usage, original technical research, technical standards development

Preferred skills

Agent orchestration (LangChain, AutoGen, MCP), adversarial ML, AI red teaming, AI safety, security compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOX), regulated industry experience, open-source security contributions

Technologies

Python, LLMs, custom models, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud platforms, vulnerability scanners, LangChain, AutoGen, MCP

Responsibilities

Architect and build AI agent systems for autonomous security operations; Tackle novel problems like adversarial robustness and secure agent communication; Develop frameworks and tooling for secure agentic AI; Conduct original research on agentic AI for offensive/defensive security; Build proof-of-concept exploits to identify failure modes; Author security position papers and technical guidance; Serve as SME for AI Cybersecurity Maturity program; Integrate LLMs and security tooling into agent architectures; Set technical direction for agent development practices; Mentor engineers on the team

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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