Senior AI Security Automation Engineer, Vice President

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street Corporation seeks a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to shape AI-driven security platforms and automate security workflows. You will design scalable, cloud-native AI services and guide teams across engineering, security, and business functions.

The role focuses on building agentic AI systems, retrieval-augmented workflows, and governance of AI in production environments. Hybrid work and global collaboration are expected.

Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, AI, data science, cyber-security, or related discipline.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years developing AI, ML, or Generative AI solutions.
• Experience deploying enterprise-scale apps and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and delivery of scalable AI security platforms for security workflows.
• Design production-grade AI systems: agents, skills, memory, guardrails, tool-use orchestration.
• Architect retrieval and context-engineering: embeddings, semantic search, grounding, prompts.
• Engineer cloud-native AI services in AWS, Azure, GCP with containers/serverless patterns.
• Optimize performance: latency, throughput, scalability, caching, cost controls.
• Build secure APIs and integrations to connect AI to security tools/biz processes.
• Establish evaluation, testing, observability for agent quality and behavior.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical direction through reviews and forums.

Skills

Generative AI

Distributed systems

Cloud-native apps

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Rust

Go

CI/CD

Security automation

Code review

Education

Master’s or Bachelor’s in CS/SE/AI

Tools

Jenkins

Harness

Spinnaker

Argo CD

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

LangChain

Job description

Who we are looking for

State Street's Cyber Data & Analytics (CyberDNA) team is seeking a Senior AI Security Automation Engineer to help shape the next generation of cybersecurity data, analytics, and AI-powered platforms. Partnering closely with Global Cyber Security teams, Infrastructure Teams, and Enterprise Continuity Services, this team develops advanced data platforms, intelligent automation solutions, and engineering capabilities that enable cybersecurity teams to make faster, AI-driven decisions and strengthen the firm's ability to detect, prevent, and respond to evolving cyber threats.

Why this role is important to us

Through innovation in AI, analytics, and automation, CyberDNA team plays a critical role in protecting State Street, its clients, and its partners from increasingly sophisticated global threat actors. This role sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and Full-Stack Software Development, with a primary focus on enabling secure, scalable, and governed AI adoption across the enterprise for supporting Cyber Security functions. The successful candidate will be part of a global AI security automation engineering team focused on delivering next-generation AI platforms, autonomous agents, security automation solutions, and data-driven applications that strengthen cyber resilience, accelerate innovation, and transform cybersecurity operations through intelligent automation.

What you will be responsible for

• Drive the architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for security workflows
• Design and build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration
• Architect retrieval and context-engineering approaches including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management
• Engineer cloud-native AI services in AWS, Azure and GCP using containers and serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores
• Optimize platform performance across latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls
• Build well-governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes
• Establish evaluation, research, regression testing, and observability frameworks to continuously improve quality and agent behaviour
• Define engineering standards for reliability, security, and safe AI operation across the platform lifecycle
• Mentor junior engineers and influence engineering direction through code reviews, architecture forums, and cross-team technical leadership
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

What we value

• Demonstrated experience architecting, developing, and deploying production-grade Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions, including agentic workflows, intelligent agents, and enterprise tool integration frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with expertise in designing and delivering cloud-native applications and services leveraging containers, serverless architectures, and modern public cloud platforms.
• Proven experience building highly scalable distributed systems utilizing asynchronous processing, event-driven architectures, durable messaging, and high-performance data access patterns.
• Hands-on expertise developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including embeddings, semantic search, knowledge grounding, context engineering, prompt optimisation, and prompt lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing AI evaluation, testing, monitoring, and observability frameworks to measure model quality, reliability, performance, and safe operation in production environments.
• Strong API design and integration experience, including the development of secure, reusable, and scalable platform services that enable enterprise-wide adoption of AI capabilities.
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a track record of mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, influencing technology strategy, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience utilizing enterprise-approved AI-assisted software development tools to accelerate application delivery, improve code quality, streamline testing, and enhance documentation, while ensuring outputs are validated through secure coding practices, peer review, and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, including data privacy, security, governance, resiliency, and risk management, with the ability to guide teams in the safe and effective use of AI technologies.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity data sources, including endpoint, network, application, cloud, and system telemetry, and their application in security monitoring, analytics, and automation.
• Experience working with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms and cybersecurity analytics solutions to ingest, correlate, retrieve, and analyze large-scale security data.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity operations, including threat detection, incident response, threat hunting, security analytics, and security automation.
• Proven ability to lead and influence geographically distributed teams through virtual collaboration, fostering strong partnerships, driving technical outcomes, and building effective relationships across engineering, security, and business organisations.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Argo CD, etc.) and methodology, production experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with a focus on helping teams release frequently to production while maintaining deployment reliability
• Strong software development and automation skills with demonstrated experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go (Golang), Bash, and PowerShell.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on.
• Experience developing cybersecurity, analytics, or operational intelligence solutions.
• Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives while remaining deeply hands-on.
• LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
• Databricks, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Iceberg, and Airflow.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and enterprise RAG platforms.
• Experience implementing MLOps, LLMOps, AI observability, and evaluation frameworks.
• Knowledge of Responsible AI, data governance, and model risk management.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline. 7+ years of professional software engineering experience. 3+ years of experience developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions. Demonstrated success designing and deploying enterprise-scale applications and platforms. Experience developing cybersecurity, analytics, or operational intelligence solutions.

Work Requirement

Work shift is 8 AM – 5 PM local time with occasional Level 2-3 escalation resolution to support operational incidents This hybrid role includes an in-office presence requirement of 2–4 days per week, consistent with the organization's hybrid work policy.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers Read our CEO Statement

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers Read our CEO Statement