Senior AI-Driven AppSec Engineer — Remote (Nationwide)

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Juneau (AK); Remote; USD 125,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

401k savings plan

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cardinal Health, Inc. in the United States is seeking an Application Security Engineer, AI and Agentic Security.

This senior individual contributor designs, prototypes, evaluating, and operationalizes generative and agentic AI capabilities within Application Security. It will help establish safe, scalable approaches for AI-assisted vulnerability identification, code analysis, remediation, validation, and security workflow automation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, cybersecurity, information systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• Substantial experience in software engineering, security engineering, Application Security, DevSecOps, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Hands-on Python development experience.
• Experience with generative AI applications, LLM integration, agentic systems, or AI-enabled developer tooling.
• Experience with cloud services, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and enterprise developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and productionize capabilities using generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, and multi-step agentic workflows.
• Develop Python-based services, automation, integrations, and evaluation harnesses for Application Security use cases.
• Evaluate AI-enabled security products and frameworks for vulnerability discovery, remediation, and developer workflow integration.
• Create auditable AI workflows with human oversight and controlled tool usage.
• Establish guardrails for identity, data access, secrets handling, logging, and change control.
• Develop test plans and benchmarks to assess accuracy, security, and operational value.
• Perform security testing of AI and agentic workflows, including prompt injection and data leakage risks.
• Integrate capabilities with source control, CI/CD pipelines, developer tools, and vulnerability management workflows.
• Define reference architectures, runbooks, and operational support models for approved capabilities.
• Partner with governance/architecture to align with AI, security, privacy, and technology standards.

Skills

Python

LLM integration

Agent frameworks

Git-based development

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud services

Containers

Job description

Cardinal Health, Inc. in the United States is seeking an Application Security Engineer, AI and Agentic Security.

This senior individual contributor designs, prototypes, evaluating, and operationalizes generative and agentic AI capabilities within Application Security. It will help establish safe, scalable approaches for AI-assisted vulnerability identification, code analysis, remediation, validation, and security workflow automation.