Agentic AI Security Consultant

Google; Illinois; Remote; USD 138,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google Cloud’s Mandiant team seeks a seasoned cybersecurity AI/agent engineer in the U.S. to strengthen cyber defense, threat intel, and incident response capabilities.

You will design AI agents, create reusable skills, and integrate with SIEM/SOAR/EDR, enabling automated workflows across CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of Python experience.
• Experience with REST APIs and cloud platforms.
• Experience building with LLMs and agent frameworks.
• Experience in Generative AI, AI agents, and SOC/IR roles.

Responsibilities

• Identify challenges in Cyber Defense Centers and plan improvements.
• Provide expertise for AI/Agentic technologies for CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.
• Design, build, and maintain AI agents and reusable skills for cyber defense workflows.
• Develop AI tooling, prompt pipelines, and integration with security data sources.
• Integrate agents with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and threat feeds via API.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

LLMs

AI agent frameworks

Cybersecurity (SOC/IR)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Google Cloud

AI/ML services

Job description

The application window will be open until at least October 27, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Remote locations: Illinois, USA; United States.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Python.
• Experience integrating systems via REST APIs and working with cloud platforms.
• Experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, function/tool calling, RAG, or agent frameworks.
• Experience with Generative AI, Generative AI Agent, Model Context Protocol, API Development, and Workflow Automation, and experience in cybersecurity in SOC or incident response roles.

Preferred qualifications

• 2 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, or similar capability.
• Experience building multi-step or multi-agent systems and designing reusable agent skills/tools.
• Experience with AI evaluation, observability, and guardrails for production systems and familiarity with Google Cloud and its AI/ML services.
• Consulting or client-facing delivery experience, with the ability to work across concurrent engagements.
• Familiarity with security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, EDR) and common security data formats.
• Ability to manage sensitive data responsibly and communicate technical work to non-AI specialists.

About The Job

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Identify challenges in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion.
• Provide expertise for AI and Agentic technologies that assist in Cyber Defense Center Processes and advise on AI and Agentic technologies relied upon by the client CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.
• Design, build, and maintain AI agents and reusable skills that automate and augment cyber defense workflows (alert triage, threat hunting, investigation, detection authoring, reporting, etc).
• Develop AI tooling and internal frameworks, prompt pipelines, tool/function integrations, evaluation harnesses, and orchestration that consultants can deploy across engagements.
• Integrate agents with security data sources and platforms (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat intelligence feeds, ticketing) via API, MCP and other connectors.

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