Agentic AI Engineer - Secure Automation (Remote)

Centene Corporation; California; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K and stock purchase plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off plus holidays

Flexible work schedules

Job summary

Centene Corporation seeks an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate agentic AI capabilities for security defense. The role blends software engineering, AI-enabled automation, and secure platform integration to reduce repetitive security work while delivering reliable, auditable automation.

The team collaborates with security governance, architecture, and operations to move prototypes into supported capabilities, adhering to secure SDLC and production-readiness standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative or business field; 4–6 years related experience.
• Senior-level experience building production software, security automation, platform engineering, or AI-enabled systems.
• Direct experience with agentic AI is strongly preferred, but depth in software engineering plus applied AI/LLM development may substitute.
• Experience with AWS, Bedrocks, and Databrisks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic workflows, AI-assisted applications, tool integrations, retrieval patterns, and deterministic automation for security use cases.
• Define agent boundaries, identity, permissions, approved tools, human approval points, auditability, rollback, and emergency-stop behavior.
• Build reusable services and components using Python, APIs, Git-based CI/CD, containers, and enterprise automation platforms.
• Apply secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, code and dependency scanning, testing, peer review, and production-readiness validation.
• Implement telemetry for agent decisions, tool calls, failures, quality, security events, and operational health.
• Partner with security engineering, architecture, governance, platform, and operations teams to move validated prototypes into supported capabilities.
• Document architecture, controls, runbooks, test evidence, ownership, and support models.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Security automation

Platform engineering

AI-enabled systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics, engineering, or computer science

Tools

AWS Bedrock

Databricks

Job description

Centene Corporation seeks an experienced software engineer to design, build, and operate agentic AI capabilities for security defense. The role blends software engineering, AI-enabled automation, and secure platform integration to reduce repetitive security work while delivering reliable, auditable automation.

The team collaborates with security governance, architecture, and operations to move prototypes into supported capabilities, adhering to secure SDLC and production-readiness standards.