Senior Cybersecurity Automation & AI Engineer (Remote)

Stryker; Portage (MI); Remote; USD 136,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker’s Principal Security Automation & AI Engineer leads the Cyber Defense automation and AI program. This hands-on role writes code, sets standards, and builds scalable patterns that reduce repetitive work while enabling analysts to focus on higher-value decisions.

You will design and operate AI-enabled security solutions, implement safeguards against risks like prompt injection and data leakage, collaborate across Security Architecture, Privacy, and IT, and mentor teams to raise the bar for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, CS, IT, engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of relevant cybersecurity/automation experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, and operating production security automation at enterprise scale.
• Strong Python development skills with SQL and API integrations (REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, OAuth).
• Experience building and operating production LLM-based solutions (AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation).
• Experience implementing AI-specific security controls (prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency).
• Understanding of SOC and incident response, detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience with Git, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the Cyber Defense automation roadmap based on analyst capacity, risk reduction, and business impact.
• Design, build, and operate automation for alert triage, enrichment, containment, case management, and notification.
• Extend automation across vulnerability management and threat intelligence including asset context and remediation tracking.
• Identify and implement high-value AI use cases across security operations (triage, investigations, reporting).
• Design, build, and operate AI agents with least privilege and human approval for consequential actions.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures for security automation and AI.

Skills

Python

SQL

APIs REST/Webhooks

OAuth

LLM integration

AI security controls

SOC & IR

Git & CI/CD

Code quality/testing

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

8+ years cybersecurity/automation experience

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender XDR

Splunk

CrowdStrike

ServiceNow

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

AWS

Job description

Stryker’s Principal Security Automation & AI Engineer leads the Cyber Defense automation and AI program. This hands-on role writes code, sets standards, and builds scalable patterns that reduce repetitive work while enabling analysts to focus on higher-value decisions.

You will design and operate AI-enabled security solutions, implement safeguards against risks like prompt injection and data leakage, collaborate across Security Architecture, Privacy, and IT, and mentor teams to raise the bar for