Staff AI Engineer, Cybersecurity AI Products

Visa; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build next-generation cybersecurity AI products for enterprise security teams. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who combines strong AI engineering with practical software development.

You will report to the Director, Cybersecurity AI Product and collaborate with a new product team focused on agentic solutions that investigate threats, triage alerts, automate security workflows, and improve decision making.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in AI engineering and software engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building AI/ML, LLM-based, automation, data-driven, or intelligent software systems.
• Experience building production software, not only prototypes or notebooks.
• Experience working in product engineering teams or delivering customer-facing technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and Build Advanced Cybersecurity AI Products
• Build agentic AI workflows for various cybersecurity operations, engineering, and risk processes.
• Convert ambiguous product ideas and early prototypes into secure, maintainable, production-grade AI systems
• Take end-to-end Technical Ownership of Complex AI Product Components, from problem framing to production operation.
• Break down ambiguous problems into technical plans, milestones, risks, and deliverables
• Contribute to technical roadmaps and influence prioritization through evidence, customer feedback, and engineering principles
• Identify design gaps, tech debts, scalability risks, and make sound engineering trade-offs.
• Research, Evaluate, and Operationalized Emerging AI Technologies
• Continuously Learn, Research and Evaluate Emerging AI technologies
• Translate research findings into practical implementation patterns, product features, internal recommendations, or technical standards
• Share findings through technical documentation, demos, internal talks or fast POCs
• Build Production-Grade AI Products
• Develop backend services, APIs, integrations, AI orchestration, data pipelines, and other software components.
• Support deployment, monitoring, debugging, and operational support of AI products
• Work with CI/CD pipelines, containers, infrastructure as code, logging, metrics, and automated testing
• Design systems that scale across customers, workloads, data sources, and platforms
• Influence Through Technical Excellence
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and example implementations
• Mentor less experienced engineers informally through strong engineering practice and clear reasoning
• Raise the quality of team decisions by bringing evidence, research, customer context, and practical trade-off analysis
• Communicate complex AI, security, and architecture concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborate with product, security, solution engineering, and customer-facing teams to ensure product capabilities address real customer workflows
• Demonstrate ownership, proactiveness, customer obsession, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguity

Skills

AI engineering

Software engineering

LLM-based systems

Cloud & APIs

Cybersecurity awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Go

Java

Rust

Job description

Visa is seeking a Staff AI Engineer to help build next-generation cybersecurity AI products for enterprise security teams. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who combines strong AI engineering with practical software development.

You will report to the Director, Cybersecurity AI Product and collaborate with a new product team focused on agentic solutions that investigate threats, triage alerts, automate security workflows, and improve decision making.