Lead AI Security Engineer

Location: McLean/Tysons VA On-site (5 days/week)

We are pioneering the next generation of cyber defense by building an Agentic Security Operations Center (SOC). Are you ready to build the future of autonomous agentic defense It is time to move beyond reactive alerting. If you are passionate about creating self-orchestrating context-aware AI systems capable of autonomous triage and proactive threat mitigation we want you on our team.

ABOUT THE TEAM

We are pioneering the next generation of cyber defense by building an Agentic Security Operations Center (SOC). Our mission is to move beyond reactive alerting by creating self-orchestrating context-aware AI systems capable of autonomous triage semantic correlation and proactive threat this role you will leverage emerging AI capabilities to reimagine how we defend our organization.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The AI SOC Engineering team is at the center of bringing our vision for AI-driven security to This is a squad of builders operating at the intersection of Generative AI software engineering and offensive/defensive security. We dont just write scripts; we architect the intelligent fabric of our defensive posture. We build and deploy production-grade proprietary multi-agent systems that empower our human analysts to handle complex incident response with autonomous agents AI in responsible and scalable ways.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Build & Deploy Agents: Design test and deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents that integrate natively with our enterprise security stack (SIEM EDR XDR and Threat Intel feeds).
• Code the Playbooks: Translate traditional human-centric SOC playbooks and analyst workflows into deterministic and heuristic agentic pipelines (using DAGs and multi-agent routing).
• Optimize RAG Pipelines: Design optimize and maintain production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to inject real-time security context network topology and historical incident logs into agent prompts.
• LLM Performance Engineering: Continuously evaluate benchmark and optimize LLM performance context window utilization latency and cost-efficiency across various models (OSS and commercial).
• Design Human-in-the-Loop (HITL): Collaborate deeply with Tier 3 Analysts and Threat Hunters to engineer seamless HITL handoff mechanisms ensuring agents safely escalate complex anomalies to humans.
• Secure the AI: Implement robust security boundaries around our LLM architecture mitigating risks like prompt injection data poisoning model tool-abuse and addressing the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs .

• 5 years of experience programming with Python
• 2 years of experience deploying scalable and responsible AI solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Google Cloud Azure)
• You love to build systems: You take pride in the quality of your code and possess a deep passion for applying AI to solve complex security challenges.
• Security-First Mindset: You blend foundational software engineering with practical security domain knowledge. You understand that the best defenses are built on a bedrock of clean reliable and scalable engineering.
• Adaptability: You thrive on bringing clarity to big undefined problems in the security space. You love asking questions digging deep to uncover the root of threats and articulating your findings concisely.
• Deeply Technical: You possess a strong foundation in engineering and mathematics. Your expertise in software and AI enables you to design intelligent systems that can perform autonomous triage and semantic correlation.
• Resilient: You are a trailblazer who can forge new paths to achieve security goals in an evolving threat landscape.
• Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science AI Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or related fields plus at least 4 years of experience developing AI and ML algorithms or technologies OR a Masters degree in a related field plus at least 2 years of experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Hands-on experience building multi-agent or complex orchestration systems using tools such as LangChain LlamaIndex AutoGen CrewAI or Semantic Kernel
• Proven experience working with production Vector Databases (e.g. Pinecone Qdrant Milvus or Weaviate ) for semantic chunking embedding generation and metadata filtering.
• Experience interfacing with cybersecurity platforms via REST APIs/Webhooks (e.g. Splunk CrowdStrike Microsoft Sentinel Palo Alto XSOAR).
• Experience deploying and scaling AI workloads in containerized cloud environments (AWS Azure or GCP using Kubernetes/EKS/AKS)
• Understanding of fine-tuning methodologies (LoRA QLoRA) for smaller domain-specific open-source models (e.g. Llama 3 Mistral) tailored for security log analysis
• Passion for staying abreast of the latest AI research and security systems and an ability to judiciously apply novel techniques in production.