AI/ML Engineer II

TENEX.AI; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Opportunities for professional growth

Culture of innovation in AI and cybersecurity

Job summary

TENEX.AI, located in Kansas City, is seeking an AI/ML II Engineer to contribute to cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. Your responsibilities will include designing and optimizing high-performance AI systems and leading technical projects across engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will possess 3-5 years of software engineering experience, especially with agentic systems and microservices. We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a collaborative culture.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in software development.
• Deep knowledge of agentic systems design.
• Solid understanding of graph structures.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks and microservices.
• Strong fundamentals in API design.

Responsibilities

• Drive and deliver technical components of complex projects.
• Design and build the AI layer for autonomous detection.
• Develop and productionize large-scale LLMs for security events.
• Own evaluation and reliability for AI systems.
• Collaborate with product and customer success teams.

Skills

Software Development

Agentic Systems Design

Graph Databases

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

API Design

Soft Skills (Communication, Leadership)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Job description

As an AI/ML II Engineer at TENEX, you will be a key technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing scalable, high-performance AI systems. You will play a crucial role in implementing our AI-driven cybersecurity solutions while collaborating across engineering teams and contributing to technical innovation.

Location: This role will require Monday - Thursday onsite in any of our locations. WFH Friday.

Job Responsibilities

• Project Execution: Ability to drive and deliver technical components of complex projects. This means communicating effectively to align on requirements, executing on high-quality code, and collaborating with senior engineers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• AI Layer Engineering: Design & build the AI layer that powers autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows.
• Productionize Reasoning Engines: Develop and productionize large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines that operate on billions of security events.
• Evaluation & Reliability: Own evaluation & reliability—from prompt libraries and fine-tuning to red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallback strategies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner tightly with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate real-world attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections.
• Push the Frontier: Experiment with retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models (text + logs + graphs) to keep defenders decisively ahead.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Software Engineering & Architecture Expertise

• Core Engineering: 3-5 years of experience in software development, engineering production systems using modern programming languages (Python, Go, Rust, or Java).
• Agentic Systems: Deep knowledge of agentic systems design, such as Centralized and/or Decentralized MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) architectures.
• Graph Architectures: Solid understanding of Graph structures and specifically graph databases.
• Orchestration Frameworks: Hands-on experience building agents, orchestration frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, Agno AGI, or custom), and evaluation harnesses.
• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems.
• APIs: Strong fundamentals in API design (REST/gRPC) and distributed systems.

Soft Skills

• Communication: Clear, concise communication skills and a bias for collaborative problem-solving.
• Leadership Alignment: Proven track record of gathering consensus and guiding multi-stakeholder initiatives through uncertain boundaries.
• Analytical Rigor: Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Nice-to-have

• Domain Background: Prior work in cybersecurity (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or MDR).
• Startup Mentality: Background driving high-impact engineering initiatives in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications (AWS/GCP Professional Engineer, Kubernetes, or security-related credentials) are a plus.

Why Join Us?

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and Google SecOps solutions.
• Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.