Senior AI-Driven Security Automation Engineer

Symbotic; Wilmington (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbotic is seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to join the Security Automation team in Wilmington, MA. You will design and build AI-driven automations, copilots, and workflows that help Security, IT, GRC, and business teams operate securely and efficiently.

You will own end-to-end solutions, validating code and delivering production systems on a small, high-trust team. This role blends hands-on development with governance and guardrails for responsible AI usage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering with full-stack depth and DevOps skills.
• Hands-on experience with AI and LLM systems, including APIs and agent frameworks.
• Strong Python development with API-driven integrations and data/workflow orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain AI-driven automations, copilots, and workflows for Security, IT, and Compliance.
• Build agentic workflows that retrieve context, reason through tasks, and generate actionable outputs.
• Automate security, compliance, and operational processes to reduce manual effort and speed responses.
• Integrate AI/automation with ITSM, IAM, SIEM, SOAR, GRC, ticketing, and vulnerability tools.
• Develop secure human-in-the-loop approval patterns for high-risk AI actions.
• Create reusable workflow patterns, prompts, and service components across teams.
• Collaborate with Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance, and business units to identify automation opportunities.
• Contribute to pen-testing and red-team efforts as the program grows.
• Measure outcomes like time saved, errors reduced, and risk reduction.

Skills

Python

AI/LLM

REST APIs

Docker

CI/CD

Cloud

Full-stack

Security design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Information Technology

Tools

PostgreSQL

SQLite

BigQuery

Job description

Symbotic is seeking a Senior Security Automation Engineer to join the Security Automation team in Wilmington, MA. You will design and build AI-driven automations, copilots, and workflows that help Security, IT, GRC, and business teams operate securely and efficiently.

You will own end-to-end solutions, validating code and delivering production systems on a small, high-trust team. This role blends hands-on development with governance and guardrails for responsible AI usage.