Senior ML Engineer, AI Security & Automation Lead

Optimum Communications Inc.; Norwalk (CT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Communications Inc. is seeking a Senior SOC Engineer (AI & Automation) to design, build, and operate AI-driven detection and automation within our Security Operations Center.

Bridging security operations and software engineering, you will develop AI-driven detection, triage, and response tooling, integrate LLM and agentic workflows into analyst operations, and ensure those capabilities are accurate, safe, measurable, and continuously improved.

Qualifications

• 7+ years across security operations, incident response, and software engineering.
• Strong Python and software engineering practices.
• Hands-on AI/ML experience including LLMs and agentic frameworks.
• Experience with SOAR and detection engineering (detection-as-code).
• Data engineering with large security datasets and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AI/ML- and automation-driven capabilities for alert enrichment and triage.
• Develop and maintain SOAR automations and detection-as-code pipelines.
• Integrate LLM tooling into SOC workflows; engineer prompts and guardrails.
• Evaluate, benchmark, and tune AI models for security use cases; measure precision and recall.
• Lead investigations and provide incident response support across on-prem and cloud environments.

Skills

Python programming

AI/ML experience

SOAR/automation

Incident response

Cloud security

Data engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

LLM tooling

Job description

Optimum Communications Inc. is seeking a Senior SOC Engineer (AI & Automation) to design, build, and operate AI-driven detection and automation within our Security Operations Center.

Bridging security operations and software engineering, you will develop AI-driven detection, triage, and response tooling, integrate LLM and agentic workflows into analyst operations, and ensure those capabilities are accurate, safe, measurable, and continuously improved.