AI/ML Engineer II — Cyber Defense & AI Systems

TENEX.AI; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TENEX.AI is seeking an AI/ML II Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable AI systems for AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. The role collaborates with engineering teams and emphasizes innovation across detection, remediation, and reasoning engines.

Location requires Monday–Thursday onsite with WFH on Fridays. You will work on high-performance AI systems, RAG-backed investigations, and large-scale data processing to power autonomous detection and response.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Project Execution: drive and deliver technical components of complex projects with clear communication across teams.
• AI Layer Engineering: design and build the AI layer powering autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigations, and auto-remediation workflows.
• Productionize Reasoning Engines: develop and productionize large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming pipelines handling billions of events.
• Evaluation & Reliability: manage evaluation and reliability, including prompt libraries, fine-tuning, red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallbacks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: partner with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections.
• Push the Frontier: explore retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models to stay ahead.

Skills

Python

Go

Rust

Java

Graph databases

LangChain

LangGraph

Agno AGI

Docker/Kubernetes

REST/gRPC

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Certifications (AWS/GCP/Kubernetes or security-related) are a plus

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Agno AGI

Job description

TENEX.AI is seeking an AI/ML II Engineer to design, develop, and optimize scalable AI systems for AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. The role collaborates with engineering teams and emphasizes innovation across detection, remediation, and reasoning engines.

Location requires Monday–Thursday onsite with WFH on Fridays. You will work on high-performance AI systems, RAG-backed investigations, and large-scale data processing to power autonomous detection and response.