Thales

Senior AI & Security Automation Engineer

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Base Salary

$127k - $253k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and deploy multi-step AI agents and autonomous workflows using Amazon Bedrock and LLM orchestration frameworks for alert triage, log summarization, and incident analysis.
  • Build and optimize RAG pipelines, semantic search systems, evaluation frameworks, Bedrock Guardrails, and fallback layers over security and operational knowledge sources.
  • Develop event-driven security automation, API connectors, telemetry ingestion pipelines, search infrastructure, detection-as-code, configuration-as-code, and orchestration playbooks.
  • Package automation and search capabilities into CLI tools, Slack and Teams ChatOps bots, and internal web portals.
  • Monitor pipeline health, token consumption, OpenSearch performance, API limits, and compute costs.
  • Partner with delivery teams, Sales Engineering, and Account teams to identify bottlenecks, deliver proof-of-values, and accelerate customer adoption.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • 9+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, security automation, DevSecOps, or applied machine learning engineering, including enterprise-scale AI/ML or GenAI delivery experience.
  • Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock APIs, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, foundation models, and generative AI applications.
  • Experience with Amazon OpenSearch Service or OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, log analytics, index management, vector databases, and k-NN search.
  • Experience building serverless and event-driven workflows with AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, and Amazon ECS/Fargate.
  • Proficiency with Amazon CloudWatch Logs, VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail, AWS IAM, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS KMS, and AWS security practices.
  • Experience with Amazon API Gateway, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, RESTful APIs, webhooks, JSON/YAML, OAuth2, API keys, and mTLS.
  • Advanced Python proficiency, including FastAPI, asyncio, Pydantic, Boto3, and OpenSearch-py, plus Bash scripting; Go familiarity is preferred.
  • Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex, semantic search architectures, structured prompt engineering, Docker, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI.
  • Understanding of WAF, API security, log correlation, incident lifecycles, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Preferred experience with Terraform, AWS CDK, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, Amazon Athena, AWS WAF, AWS Network Firewall, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon GuardDuty.
  • AWS Security, AWS Solutions Architect, AWS AI Practitioner, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, or GIAC AI Security Automation Engineer certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement in Austin, United States.
  • Monday-Friday 9-hour shifts including an 8-hour workday and 1-hour lunch, with occasional paid weekend on-call duty approximately once every two months.
  • Health, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life, disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident, legal, identity theft, and pet insurance options.
  • Retirement savings plan after 30 days with company contribution and matching, with no vesting period.
  • Company-paid holidays, paid time off, employee assistance, and well-being programs.
  • Post-offer background check is required.

Tech Stack

BashDockerElasticsearchFastAPIGitGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoPythonTerraform
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About Thales

10,000+ employees

Thales designs and sells defense, aerospace, space, and digital identity/cybersecurity systems to governments, armed forces, infrastructure operators, and enterprises. Its portfolio spans avionics, radars and sensors, satellites, air traffic management, secure communications, and cybersecurity and identity solutions (bolstered by the 2019 Gemalto acquisition). Headquartered in Meudon, France, Thales is publicly traded on Euronext Paris (HO) and reported €20.6 billion in sales in 2024.

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