Senior Cybersecurity Automation Engineer - Remote

Stryker; Kalamazoo (MI); Remote; USD 136,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Principal Security Automation & AI Engineer to lead automation and AI initiatives across Cyber Defense. You will design, implement, and operate scalable automation and AI solutions, mentor teams, and help reduce repetitive work for analysts.

The role emphasizes secure, auditable automation, robust integrations across security platforms, and safe use of AI with governance controls. This is a remote-capable, engineering-focused leadership position in a fast-paced security

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of relevant cybersecurity or automation experience.
• Experience deploying production security automation at enterprise scale.
• Strong Python development skills and API integrations (REST, webhooks, OAuth).
• Experience building AI/LLM-based security solutions and agent systems.
• Familiarity with security operations, MITRE ATT&CK, and risk controls.

Responsibilities

• Own and prioritize the Cyber Defense automation roadmap based on analyst capacity, risk, and business impact.
• Design, build, and operate automation for alert triage, enrichment, containment, case management, and notifications.
• Extend automation across vulnerability management and threat intelligence including asset context and remediation tracking.
• Build and maintain integrations across endpoint security, detection engineering, security data platforms, asset inventory, threat intelligence, and ticketing systems.
• Identify and implement AI use cases across security operations, including triage, investigation summaries, and reporting.
• Design, build, and operate AI agents with least privilege and human approval for consequential actions.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure accuracy, reliability, and failure modes before deployment.
• Implement safeguards against prompt injection, data leakage, and excessive agent permissions.
• Evaluate vendor AI capabilities and provide build-vix or buy-wait recommendations.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, and reference architectures for automation and AI.
• Mentor engineers and analysts to scale safe automation capabilities across Cyber Defense.
• Translate complex automation concepts for technical teams and executives.

Skills

Python development

SQL

REST APIs

Webhooks

OAuth

AI/LLM integration

Git CI/CD

Security automation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender XDR

Splunk

CrowdStrike

ServiceNow

Azure/AWS

Job description

Stryker is seeking a Principal Security Automation & AI Engineer to lead automation and AI initiatives across Cyber Defense. You will design, implement, and operate scalable automation and AI solutions, mentor teams, and help reduce repetitive work for analysts.

The role emphasizes secure, auditable automation, robust integrations across security platforms, and safe use of AI with governance controls. This is a remote-capable, engineering-focused leadership position in a fast-paced security