AI-Driven Security Engineer for Autonomous Cyber Defense

Ampcus Inc; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc is seeking an AI Senior Security Engineer to design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI agents that enhance cybersecurity operations with guardrails, data privacy, and human oversight.

You will implement prompt engineering, tune ML models, and integrate providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. Build data pipelines and deploy scalable AI across cloud environments with strong emphasis on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Python for data ingestion, cleaning, ML libs, and system/web integrations.
• Proficiency with ML frameworks, especially Scikit-Learn and PyTorch.
• Experience with AI agent orchestration frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI or AutoGPT.
• Hands-on development and tuning of ML models for cybersecurity use cases.
• 3–4 years of hands-on cloud-based AI Platform experience (AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Azure AI).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Git for deployment and version control.
• Strong experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs for system integration.
• Proven track record designing AI/ML solutions in cybersecurity contexts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI agents for autonomous cybersecurity tasks.
• Develop prompt engineering solutions to optimize LLM outputs for security logic.
• Tune ML models to detect sophisticated attack patterns beyond signatures.
• Integrate AI models and LLMs via APIs or local deployments into prod systems.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines with vector databases and AI-ready data.
• Reengineer workflows using a machine-first approach with human oversight.
• Deploy, monitor, and optimize AI solutions with cloud-native tech.
• Implement AI safety guardrails and data privacy controls with human-in-the-loop.

Skills

Python

Scikit-Learn

PyTorch

LangChain

CrewAI

AutoGPT

AWS Bedrock

AWS SageMaker

Azure AI

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in AI/CS

Tools

OpenAI

Anthropic

Vector databases

Job description

Ampcus Inc is seeking an AI Senior Security Engineer to design, develop, and deploy autonomous AI agents that enhance cybersecurity operations with guardrails, data privacy, and human oversight.

You will implement prompt engineering, tune ML models, and integrate providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. Build data pipelines and deploy scalable AI across cloud environments with strong emphasis on security and reliability.