Remote Agentic AI Engineer - Security Automation

Aimlroles; United States; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene in the United States seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, secure, and operate governed agentic AI capabilities that reduce repetitive security work and create reusable automation patterns for Security Defense Technologies. The role combines software engineering, AI-agent development, application security, platform integration, and production operations discipline.

The position emphasizes secure SDLC practices, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production software, security automation, platform engineering, or AI-enabled systems.
• Direct experience with agentic AI is strongly preferred, but demonstrated depth in software engineering plus applied AI/LLM development may substitute.
• Experience with AWS, Bedrocks, and Databrisks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic workflows, AI-assisted applications, tool integrations, retrieval patterns, and deterministic automation for security use cases.
• Define agent boundaries, identity, permissions, approved tools, human approval points, auditability, rollback, and emergency-stop behavior.
• Build reusable services and components using Python, APIs, Git-based CI/CD, containers, and enterprise automation platforms.
• Apply secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, code and dependency scanning, testing, peer review, and production-readiness validation.
• Implement telemetry for agent decisions, tool calls, failures, quality, security events, and operational health.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Security automation

Platform engineering

AI-enabled systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field

Tools

AWS

Bedrocks

Databrisks

Job description

Centene in the United States seeks a senior software engineer to design, build, secure, and operate governed agentic AI capabilities that reduce repetitive security work and create reusable automation patterns for Security Defense Technologies. The role combines software engineering, AI-agent development, application security, platform integration, and production operations discipline.

The position emphasizes secure SDLC practices, telemetry, and cross-functional collaboration, with a focus on