AI‑Powered Security Automation Engineer

Empower LLC; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life insur

401(k) with company matching

Tuition reimbursement

Casual dress code

Generous paid time off

Volunteer time off

Parental leave & disability

Job summary

Empower LLC is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to build Python‑based automation that strengthens cybersecurity and improves operations. You will collaborate with governance, risk and compliance, threat management, and security architecture teams, with a focus on AI‑enabled automation.

Responsibilities include designing, testing, deploying, documenting, and monitoring solutions; building API‑driven integrations; and applying MCP‑based capabilities.

Qualifications

• Degree in CS, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Proficiency in Python, including production-quality code.
• Experience building API-driven applications and integrations.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, code review, dependency management.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and validating generated output.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and MCP-based capabilities.
• Cloud platform automation experience with IaC and cloud-native concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, monitor, and maintain Python-based security automation solutions that improve cybersecurity capabilities and operational efficiency.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to understand operational challenges, clarify ambiguous requirements, document solution designs, align with stakeholders, and validate delivered functionality.
• Build reliable Python applications, services, APIs, workflows, internal tools, integrations, and reusable libraries using maintainable software engineering practices.
• Develop API-driven integrations across security tools, cloud platforms, authentication systems, source code platforms, third-party services, and internal technologies, including systems without native integrations.
• Build security and compliance automation that collects, compares, validates, and acts on data, including validation of cloud resources against required security tooling and configuration standards.
• Develop and support AI-enabled security automation using large language models and Model Context Protocol (MCP), including secure integrations, AI governance controls, and usage guardrails.
• Contribute to agentic security capabilities, including automated analysis of source code for security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets, and compliance with infrastructure standards.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for coding, debugging, automated testing, documentation, and refactoring while independently reviewing and validating generated output.
• Troubleshoot issues across application code, APIs, identity and authentication, cloud infrastructure, data flows, and automation runtime environments, independently investigating unfamiliar technologies and resolving blockers.
• Collaborate through code reviews, operational support, shared tooling, reusable modules, engineering documentation, and development practices that improve security, reliability, maintainability, compliance, and governance.

Skills

Python

API-driven development

AI-assisted development tools

Large language models

MCP-based capabilities

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Empower LLC is seeking a Security Automation Engineer to build Python‑based automation that strengthens cybersecurity and improves operations. You will collaborate with governance, risk and compliance, threat management, and security architecture teams, with a focus on AI‑enabled automation.

Responsibilities include designing, testing, deploying, documenting, and monitoring solutions; building API‑driven integrations; and applying MCP‑based capabilities.