Senior Agentic AI Security Engineer — Flexible Hours

Socket.dev; Jessup (MD); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Security is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and build multi-agent systems that scale security operations on a novel AI Factory platform. You will decompose complex security processes into coordinated agent workflows and create reliable orchestration patterns for high-security, air-gapped environments.

You will prototype agentic workflows, establish architecture standards, and ensure tests, context, permissions, and human approval boundaries are in place while aligning

Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Demonstrated experience building applications or workflows using large language models, including tool use, structured outputs, retrieval, or agentic execution.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

Responsibilities

• Architect and build multi-agent systems for security operations, detection, compliance, and workflow automation.
• Decompose complex security processes into coordinated agent workflows.
• Design reliable agent orchestration patterns for high-security, 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, adapting them for classified environments.
• Partner with security engineers to identify processes suitable for agent-based automation.

Skills

Software development experience

Programming experience

Leadership / architecture

Mentorship / tech lead

Large language models

Security clearance TS/SCI with Polylog

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

LangGraph

Semantic Kernel

AutoGen

CrewAI

Strands Agents

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Amazon Security is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and build multi-agent systems that scale security operations on a novel AI Factory platform. You will decompose complex security processes into coordinated agent workflows and create reliable orchestration patterns for high-security, air-gapped environments.

You will prototype agentic workflows, establish architecture standards, and ensure tests, context, permissions, and human approval boundaries are in place while aligning