Remote AI & Security Automation Engineer

NerdWallet; Canada; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare stipend

Vacation time off

Sabbatical

Wellness stipend

Wifi stipend

Cell phone stipend

Work from home equipment

Job summary

NerdWallet is hiring a Software Engineer focused on AI & Automation within our Security organization to build AI-enabled systems and scalable security tooling. You will develop production Python services and internal platforms, integrating with major tools while advancing AI-driven security workflows.

You will work remotely from anywhere in Canada (excluding Quebec), collaborate with security partners, and contribute to designing scalable architectures and reliable pipelines for secure software

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python proficiency with backend services.
• Experience with distributed or cloud-based systems.
• Hands-on AI-enabled applications or automations with LLMs.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and communicate tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Own AI-enabled security workflows from design to production.
• Build AI-powered security tools and internal platforms.
• Collaborate with security partners and engineers.
• Design integrations with GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence.
• Evaluate and improve AI system quality in production.

Skills

Python

AI/ML experience

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Security awareness

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

LLM APIs

RAG workflows

GitHub/Jira/Confluence

Job description

NerdWallet is hiring a Software Engineer focused on AI & Automation within our Security organization to build AI-enabled systems and scalable security tooling. You will develop production Python services and internal platforms, integrating with major tools while advancing AI-driven security workflows.

You will work remotely from anywhere in Canada (excluding Quebec), collaborate with security partners, and contribute to designing scalable architectures and reliable pipelines for secure software