Senior Agentic AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, secure, and manage governed agentic AI functionalities for Security Defense Technologies.

• Create agentic workflows, AI-enhanced applications, tool integrations, retrieval methodologies, and deterministic security automation.

• Specify agent boundaries, identities, permissions, approved tools, human approval checkpoints, auditability, rollback procedures, and emergency-stop protocols.

• Construct reusable services and components utilizing Python, APIs, Git-based CI/CD, containers, and enterprise automation platforms.

• Employ secure SDLC methodologies, including threat modeling, code and dependency scanning, testing, peer review, and production-readiness assessments.

• Implement telemetry for agent decisions, tool interactions, failures, quality assessments, security incidents, and operational health monitoring.

• Collaborate with security engineering, architecture, governance, platform, and operations teams to transition validated prototypes into supported capabilities.

• Document architecture, controls, runbooks, test evidence, ownership, and support frameworks.

• Undertake additional responsibilities as assigned.

• Adhere to all policies and standards.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must possess authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science), or equivalent experience gained through relevant knowledge, duties, scope, and skills.

• Requires 4–6 years of pertinent experience.

• Senior-level experience in building production software, security automation, platform engineering, or AI-driven systems.

• Direct experience with agentic AI is highly preferred, or demonstrated expertise in software engineering along with applied AI/LLM development.

• Familiarity with AWS, Bedrocks, and Databrisks is preferred.

• Intermediate skills in analytical thinking, project management, judgment, decision-making, accuracy, independent work, and problem identification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive pay.

• Health insurance.

• 401K.

• Stock purchase plans.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Paid time off plus holidays.

• Flexible work arrangements including remote, hybrid, field, or office schedules.

• Additional incentives may be included in the total compensation package.