AI Engineer - Security Automation & LLM Orchestration

XPT Software; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software is seeking a Senior AI/Automation Engineer to design and build an AI-assisted layer on top of SAST/SCA capabilities. You will implement OpenAI or equivalent LLM integrations, agentic patterns, and guardrails to reduce triage effort and remediation time.

You will create multi-step, tool-using AI workflows, ensure data governance, and contribute to architecture documentation in a regulated telco environment. Experience with AppSec and security-focused automations is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or equivalent) at production scale.
• Experience designing agentic systems with multi-step reasoning and tool orchestration.
• Strong software engineering skills to build and maintain integration pipelines (GitLab API/webhooks, CI/CD hooks).
• Understanding of prompt engineering best practices and evaluation methodology.
• Working knowledge of AppSec concepts (SAST/SCA, CVE/CWE, vulnerability severity).
• Awareness of data governance/privacy implications of sending code/vulnerability data to third-party LLM APIs and data-redaction/on-prem options.

Responsibilities

• Design and build integrations that pull SAST/SCA findings from GitLab via API/webhooks into an external pipeline for AI processing.
• Develop LLM-based triage with false-positive scoring, plain-language explanations, and remediation suggestions using code context.
• Create agentic workflows that correlate dependencies with code usage and draft remediation MR for review.
• Own prompt engineering, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop approval for generated fixes.
• Select and integrate LLM provider stack with data residency considerations and governance sign-off.
• Build feedback loops to measure agent outputs against analyst decisions for accuracy improvements.
• Collaborate with SMEs and business analysts to align AI outcomes with security objectives.

Skills

LLM APIs

Agentic systems

Software integration

Prompt engineering

AppSec concepts

Data governance/privacy

GitLab API & Webhooks

Tools

GitLab API

CI/CD hooks

Job description

XPT Software is seeking a Senior AI/Automation Engineer to design and build an AI-assisted layer on top of SAST/SCA capabilities. You will implement OpenAI or equivalent LLM integrations, agentic patterns, and guardrails to reduce triage effort and remediation time.

You will create multi-step, tool-using AI workflows, ensure data governance, and contribute to architecture documentation in a regulated telco environment. Experience with AppSec and security-focused automations is highly valued.