Detection & Response Engineer — AI-Driven Security

Neura Market; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Modal is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build scalable detection, investigation, and response tooling across our platform. This engineering role focuses on automation, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal, speed, and operational effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and security engineers to ensure incidents strengthen the overall resilience. The role emphasizes building detections, incident response capabilities, and security tooling in a

Qualifications

• Experience in detection engineering, incident response, security engineering, or security-focused software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-fidelity detections for attacks, abuse, and anomalous behavior across production systems
• Lead or participate in investigations spanning production infrastructure and cloud environments
• Build automation and playbooks to reduce investigation time and improve response
• Develop security tooling and leverage AI/LLMs to surface actionable insights
• Partner with engineering to make systems observable and secure by default

Skills

Detection engineering

Incident response

Security engineering

Software engineering

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

SQL

AI/LLMs

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR

Job description

Modal is seeking a Detection & Response Engineer to build scalable detection, investigation, and response tooling across our platform. This engineering role focuses on automation, using AI where it meaningfully improves signal, speed, and operational effectiveness.

You’ll collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and security engineers to ensure incidents strengthen the overall resilience. The role emphasizes building detections, incident response capabilities, and security tooling in a