Lead AI Security Engineer — Build Autonomous Agents On-Site

AlignityX; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AlignityX in McLean, VA seeks a Lead AI Security Engineer to architect and build an Agentic SOC from the ground up. This is a deeply technical AI/software engineering role embedded within security, not a traditional SOC analyst position.

You will design autonomous AI agents, multi-agent workflows, secure AI architectures and production RAG systems, integrating with SIEM/EDR/XDR and threat intel. On-site five days per week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years professional software engineering
• 1.5+ years building applications powered by Large Language Models
• 5+ years programming professionally with Python
• 2+ years deploying scalable AI solutions on AWS/Azure/GCP
• Production-grade AI systems experience
• Strong understanding of software architecture and async systems
• Ability to architect and code sophisticated AI solutions
• Ability to translate security problems into concrete architectures
• On-site five days per week in McLean, VA

Responsibilities

• Architect, code, test and deploy production AI systems
• Design autonomous AI agents interacting with SIEM/EDR/XDR and threat intel
• Build multi-agent workflows with DAGs and tool calls
• Translate playbooks into deterministic AI pipelines
• Develop production Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems
• Evaluate LLM models for accuracy, latency and cost
• Engineer safe escalation paths between agents and analysts
• Protect AI systems against prompt injection and data poisoning
• Deploy AI workloads in containerized cloud environments

Skills

Software engineering

LLM applications

Python

Cloud deployment

Production AI

Software architecture

Systems thinking

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

AutoGen

CrewAI

Semantic Kernel

Pinecone

Qdrant

Milvus

Weaviate

Splunk

CrowdStrike

MS Sentinel

XSOAR

Kubernetes

EKS

AKS

LoRA

QLoRA

Llama

Mistral

Job description

AlignityX in McLean, VA seeks a Lead AI Security Engineer to architect and build an Agentic SOC from the ground up. This is a deeply technical AI/software engineering role embedded within security, not a traditional SOC analyst position.

You will design autonomous AI agents, multi-agent workflows, secure AI architectures and production RAG systems, integrating with SIEM/EDR/XDR and threat intel. On-site five days per week.