Principal AI Security Engineer, Automation Platform

QuantumScape; United States; On-site; USD 155,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

RSU/Equity

Health insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

QuantumScape is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to own our security AI and automation platform. You will partner with cloud, network security, and detection engineering teams to reduce risk and expand coverage for a small security team.

You will design and operate AI agents on GKE, enforce least‑privilege controls, build MCP servers, and modernize security workflows across SIEM, ITSM, and GRC systems while maintaining auditable, production-grade infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Experience shipping production software or infrastructure — not just scripts.
• Hands-on experience with large language models: agent frameworks, tool and function calling, retrieval, prompt engineering, and systematic evaluation.
• Track record of building or maturing security capabilities from initial gap identification through operationalization in complex environments.
• Experience working alongside engineering, IT, and infrastructure teams in an embedded or advisory capacity.

Responsibilities

• Own security AI and automation platform and advise across cloud security, network security, and detection engineering.
• Develop AI agents and MCP servers with least-privilege, scoped tooling.
• Build and operate multi-agent security platform on GKE, including routing and provenance.
• Automate security workflows and integrate with SIEM, ITSM, and GRC platforms.
• Define escalation gates, and ensure auditable decision provenance for automated actions.

Skills

AI agent engineering

Cloud security

Platform engineering

Python production code

LLMs & agent frameworks

Security advisory

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Google ADK

LangGraph

Anthropic Claude

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

GKE

Terraform

Kubernetes

Google SecOps Chronicle

Entra ID

Job description

QuantumScape is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to own our security AI and automation platform. You will partner with cloud, network security, and detection engineering teams to reduce risk and expand coverage for a small security team.

You will design and operate AI agents on GKE, enforce least‑privilege controls, build MCP servers, and modernize security workflows across SIEM, ITSM, and GRC systems while maintaining auditable, production-grade infrastructure.