Senior AI Security Platform Engineer — Threat Detection

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in San Francisco, CA seeks an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enhanced threat detection systems. You will integrate security data, signals, and context with foundation models to predict threats and decode events at scale.

You will prototype AI features, validate real-world utility with security SMEs, and craft an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation. The role targets SF’s high-demand AI security landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's with required years of related experience.
• Designing distributed systems with storage layers and data platforms.
• Proficiency in Python for backend services and automation.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitHub/GitLab, and Jira.
• Experience with security telemetry sources and threat data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems combining security data, detection signals, and context.
• Prototype and test AI features for event decoding and threat prediction.
• Collaborate with security SMEs and researchers to validate utility.
• Develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation.
• Architect a distributed platform correlating trillions of events.
• Synthesize signals into explainable findings for triage agents.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams on scalable workflows.
• Contribute to AI-native security operations architecture.

Skills

Python development

Distributed systems

CI/CD Pipelines

Security telemetry sources

AI-powered feature integration

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8+ years

Master's degree + 6+ years

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Jira

Splunk API

FAISS

Pinecone

Job description

Jobtailor in San Francisco, CA seeks an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enhanced threat detection systems. You will integrate security data, signals, and context with foundation models to predict threats and decode events at scale.

You will prototype AI features, validate real-world utility with security SMEs, and craft an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation. The role targets SF’s high-demand AI security landscape.