Senior Agentic AI Engineer for Security Ops

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and build multi-agent security systems for a first-of-its-kind AI Factory.

This greenfield program requires agent-first approaches, autonomous workflows, and robust production-quality practices in high-security environments. You will lead architecture, define standards, and guide teams in transitioning prototypes to maintainable production capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable automation across detection, response, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building workflows with large language models, including tool use and agentic execution.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build multi-agent systems for security operations, detection, and workflow automation.
• Decompose complex security processes into coordinated agent workflows.
• Design reliable agent orchestration patterns for air-gapped environments.
• Implement robust error handling, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls for autonomous systems.
• Define standards and patterns for agent development across the security team.
• Evaluate and integrate agentic frameworks for classified environments.
• Partner with security engineers to identify processes suitable for agent-based automation.

Skills

LLM experience

Agentic systems

Leadership

Security-focused engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Strands Agents

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and build multi-agent security systems for a first-of-its-kind AI Factory.

This greenfield program requires agent-first approaches, autonomous workflows, and robust production-quality practices in high-security environments. You will lead architecture, define standards, and guide teams in transitioning prototypes to maintainable production capabilities, ensuring secure, scalable automation across detection, response, and