Job Summary

We are hiring a Staff AI Engineer (Lead) to design and drive an ambitious agentic security workflows covering the full SDLC from requirements, threat modeling, secure coding, CI/CD validation, security testing, release risk assessment, and production feedback loops. This role focuses on building reliable AI agent systems that understand product security context, support SDLC validation, improve release readiness, and help engineering teams adopt secure AI-assisted development practices. The ideal candidate combines AI agent engineering, backend/platform experience, and cross-team technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end agentic security workflows for SDLC validation, patch management, proactive testing, risk reporting, and release gates.
- Own the product security context model, including architecture, data sensitivity, authentication/RBAC, credential and PII handling, logging touchpoints, release tier, and critical product flows.
- Define agent decision rules, including advisory behavior, human-review requirements, release-blocking criteria,



risk thresholds, and escalation paths.
- Design and implement agent guardrails such as least-privilege access, prompt-injection handling, protected tool execution, audit logging, rollback, and kill-switch mechanisms.
- Build and maintain AI agent workflows using LLMs, context engineering, tool integrations, orchestration, harness design, loop engineering, and evaluation pipelines.
- Validate agent outputs with security experts before rules are trusted for production use.
- Lead application engineers across divisions and translate agentic workflow designs into stack-specific implementation patterns.
- Work with SRE/PRE on CI/CD integration, GitHub/CircleCI workflows, Datadog checks, staging safeguards, and release-gate mechanics.
- Coordinate with QA, privacy, and security specialists on regression validation, release readiness, PII handling, and secure coding rules.
- Own false-positive tuning, rule-ch

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