AI Security Engineer II – Detection & ML Agents

Abnormal Security Corp.; United States; Remote; USD 149,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Abnormal AI is seeking a Software Engineer II to build customer-facing security features and the supporting software for detection and investigation workflows. You will collaborate closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and fellow software engineers to deploy reliable production systems that catch more attacks while reducing false positives and costs.

Strong backend skills and practical machine learning experience are valued as you contribute to model integration, tooling, and performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, IS, or related field.
• At least 2 years of software design and development experience.
• Experience with backend services or data-intensive apps where reliability and performance matter.
• Strong programming skills and knowledge of data structures and software design.
• Experience with automated tests and diagnosing production issues via logs and metrics.
• Ability to translate product requirements into practical designs with guidance on larger technical decisions.
• Clear technical communication and collaboration with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services and data pipelines for customer-facing security features.
• Integrate machine learning models and large language models into detection and investigation workflows.
• Develop AI agents that analyze suspicious activity and support security investigations.
• Build tools that make model training repeatable, agent-driven, and help engineers evaluate AI systems.
• Evaluate changes against real attack patterns and investigate missed attacks and false positives.
• Improve system reliability and performance within latency and cost limits.
• Write tested, readable code and contribute to technical designs and code reviews.
• Own well-defined features from design through release and monitor their behavior in production.

Skills

Backend services experience

Programming proficiency

Diagnostics via logs/metrics

Technical communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related engineering field

Tools

Python

Go

Job description

Abnormal AI is seeking a Software Engineer II to build customer-facing security features and the supporting software for detection and investigation workflows. You will collaborate closely with ML engineers, data scientists, and fellow software engineers to deploy reliable production systems that catch more attacks while reducing false positives and costs.

Strong backend skills and practical machine learning experience are valued as you contribute to model integration, tooling, and performance