AI Security Defense Lead & Incident Response

sevenai; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

7AI is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to shape AI-driven security operations across cloud and enterprise environments. You’ll decide where AI can reliably take over tasks and work directly with customers to rebuild their security operations around the platform.

You will lead incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, threat hunting, and security automation, while mentoring teams and collaborating with product, engineering, and research to drive the roadmap.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including SOC/Blue Team roles.
• Strong experience with SOAR platforms and security automation.
• Hands-on coding experience with Python or similar languages.
• Experience collaborating with customers.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architectures.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI cybersecurity defense work, including incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, threat hunting, threat research, and security automation.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to shape the platform roadmap and our AI security solutions.
• Work directly with customers, understand their security posture and processes, and guide their AI security transformation.
• Build and automate realistic attack simulations, adversary emulation scenarios, and large-scale security environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on security best practices, automation design, and incident response methodology.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Python

Customer collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

SOAR platforms

Security automation frameworks

Job description

7AI is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to shape AI-driven security operations across cloud and enterprise environments. You’ll decide where AI can reliably take over tasks and work directly with customers to rebuild their security operations around the platform.

You will lead incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, threat hunting, and security automation, while mentoring teams and collaborating with product, engineering, and research to drive the roadmap.