Senior AI Security Automation Engineer
State Street3 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $218k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for cybersecurity workflows.
- Build production-grade AI agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, tool-use orchestration, retrieval systems, and context-engineering capabilities.
- Engineer cloud-native AI services using public clouds, containers, serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores.
- Develop secure APIs and integrations connecting AI capabilities with security platforms, tools, and business processes.
- Establish AI evaluation, regression testing, monitoring, observability, and reliability frameworks.
- Define standards for secure, governed, reliable, and safe AI operations across the platform lifecycle.
- Mentor junior engineers and influence technical direction through code reviews, architecture forums, and cross-team leadership.
- Use enterprise-authorized AI coding and automation tools while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding practices.
- Lead complex technical initiatives and collaborate with geographically distributed engineering, security, and business teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, data science, cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- At least 3 years of experience developing AI, machine learning, or generative AI solutions.
- Experience architecting and deploying production-grade generative AI, LLM, agentic workflow, and enterprise tool-integration solutions.
- Strong software engineering experience with cloud-native applications, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, messaging, and high-performance data access.
- Hands-on experience with RAG, embeddings, semantic search, knowledge grounding, context engineering, prompt optimization, and prompt lifecycle management.
- Experience building AI evaluation, testing, monitoring, observability, MLOps, LLMOps, and model-quality frameworks.
- Strong API design, platform integration, cybersecurity data, SIEM, security analytics, threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, and security automation experience.
- Experience with responsible AI, data privacy, security, governance, resiliency, risk management, and model risk management.
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and tools such as Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, and Argo CD.
- Strong development and automation skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go, Bash, and PowerShell.
- Experience with LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
- Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Airflow, vector databases, semantic search, and enterprise RAG platforms.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, architectural decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, and ability to lead while remaining hands-on.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including a 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and optional additional coverages.
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, short-term disability, and family-care leave.
- Employee Assistance Program, incentive compensation eligibility, and certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
- Inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and employee networks.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring in-office presence 2–4 days per week.
- Work shift is 8 AM–5 PM local time, with occasional Level 2–3 escalation support for operational incidents.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkArgo CDAWSAzureBashDatabricksGoGoogle Cloud PlatformHarnessJavaScriptJenkinsPowerShellPythonRustSnowflakeSpinnakerTypeScript
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About State Street
State Street is a global custodian bank and asset manager serving institutional investors with investment servicing, fund accounting, trading/FX, data, and index/active strategies. Its products include State Street Global Advisors’ funds and ETFs, the Charles River Investment Management Solution, and the front-to-back State Street Alpha platform. Founded in 1792 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE (ticker: STT) and operates across major markets worldwide.