AI Security Automation Platform Lead

State Street; Princeton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 217,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Insurance coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Incentive compensation

Tax-advantaged savings plans

Job summary

State Street is seeking a Lead AI Security Automation Engineer to shape enterprise AI-driven security platforms and data-driven decision-making across cyber defense. You will lead a team delivering agentic AI workflows and secure tooling across cloud environments, partnering with Global Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Continuity Services.

The role emphasizes governance, security of AI implementations, and scalable security automation at enterprise scale, with a strong focus on mentoring

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 4+ years developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of AI Automation Engineers focused on advancing cybersecurity operations through automation and AI-driven innovation.
• Lead the architecture and hands-on delivery of scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for security workflows
• Design and build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration
• Architect retrieval and context-engineering approaches including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management
• Engineer cloud-native AI solutions in AWS, Azure and GCP using containers and serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores
• Optimize platform performance across latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls
• Build well-governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes
• Establish evaluation, research, regression testing, and observability frameworks to continuously improve quality and agent behavior
• Define engineering standards for reliability, security, and safe AI operation across the platform lifecycle
• Mentor senior & junior engineers and influence engineering direction through code reviews, architecture forums, and cross-team technical leadership
• Leverages enterprise-authored AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authored AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve value of automation.

Skills

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

Rust

Go

Bash

PowerShell

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline

10+ years of professional software engineering experience

4+ years developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

CrewAI

AutoGen

LangChain

Databricks

Snowflake

Spark

Kafka

Delta Lake

Airflow

Jenkins

Harness

Spinnaker

Argo CD

Job description

State Street is seeking a Lead AI Security Automation Engineer to shape enterprise AI-driven security platforms and data-driven decision-making across cyber defense. You will lead a team delivering agentic AI workflows and secure tooling across cloud environments, partnering with Global Cyber Security, Infrastructure, and Continuity Services.

The role emphasizes governance, security of AI implementations, and scalable security automation at enterprise scale, with a strong focus on mentoring