Agentic AI Security Engineer — On-Site in McLean

AlignityX; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

AlignityX seeks an AI Security Engineer to help build the next generation of security operations. You will design and deploy autonomous AI agents that integrate with enterprise security platforms, bridging AI engineering, software development and cybersecurity in real-world deployments.

You are a builder who can turn ambiguous security problems into executable architecture, with 4+ years AI/ML and 2+ years software development, working on-site in McLean, VA five days a week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field plus 4+ years AI/ML experience, or a relevant Master’s degree plus 2+ years.
• 1) 2+ years of software development experience using Python, Go, Scala or Java.
• 2) Strong fundamentals to build production-grade systems.
• 3) Experience with AI/ML technologies beyond basic API integration or prompt engineering.
• 4) Ability to turn ambiguous technical problems into executable architectures.
• 5) Genuine interest in applying AI to cybersecurity and security operations.
• 6) Willingness to work on-site in McLean, Virginia five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver production-grade AI capabilities for agentic security systems.
• Translate SOC playbooks into deterministic agentic pipelines using DAGs and multi-agent routing.
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflows with real-time security context.
• Evaluate and optimize LLM performance for accuracy, latency and cost.
• Create human-in-the-loop escalation and handoff between AI agents and analysts.
• Engineer safeguards against prompt injection, data poisoning and model abuse.
• Deploy and scale AI workloads in containerized cloud environments.

Skills

Python

Go

Scala

Java

Software development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/AI/EE/CE or related field

Master’s degree in related field

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

Kubernetes

EKS

AKS

Pinecone

Qdrant

Milvus

Weaviate

Job description

AlignityX seeks an AI Security Engineer to help build the next generation of security operations. You will design and deploy autonomous AI agents that integrate with enterprise security platforms, bridging AI engineering, software development and cybersecurity in real-world deployments.

You are a builder who can turn ambiguous security problems into executable architecture, with 4+ years AI/ML and 2+ years software development, working on-site in McLean, VA five days a week.