Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI

TrendAI; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Parental leave

Mental health program

Adoption assistance

Wellness stipend

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Tuition assistance

Employee resource groups

Job summary

TrendAI, the AI security leader and enterprise unit of Trend Micro, is seeking Applied AI Engineers to shape how teams build AI-powered applications. You’ll design tools, workflows, and standards at the intersection of Generative AI and platform engineering, enabling scalable, secure AI adoption.

Join a lean, high-impact team collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, and security to deliver reusable components, guardrails, and self-service capabilities that accelerate delivery while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Proficient in modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud).
• Strong problem-solving and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Define the AI Development Lifecycle: Establish and evolve the end‑to‑end AI development lifecycle, including guardrails, context management, and engineering standards that enable responsible and efficient AI adoption.
• Lead cross‑functional initiatives that improve how teams build and ship software, with a focus on scaling AI capabilities and enhancing developer experience.
• Design and deliver self‑service capabilities that simplify how engineers build, test, and deploy applications—especially AI‑powered ones. This includes reusable tooling, templates, and patterns that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
• Set and uphold high standards for platform and AI engineering. Mentor engineers and stakeholders, and promote clean, scalable, and maintainable design practices.
• Treat internal platforms and AI capabilities as products. Continuously iterate based on developer feedback, usability, and adoption metrics.
• Develop the foundational components that allow teams to safely and effectively leverage AI, including shared services, reusable modules, and well‑defined integration patterns.

Skills

Software development

CI/CD

Cloud environments

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Curiosity

Tools

Golang

Python

Kubernetes

Job description

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.

At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI‑powered future.

AI Fearlessly.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Austin, TX office with an expectation of 3 days onsite per week.

Position Summary

Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you instinctively see the importance in every detail? We are looking for Applied AI Engineers to help define how engineers build with AI across our organization.

In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of Generative AI and platform engineering, designing the tools, workflows, and standards that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered applications. Your work will directly shape how teams adopt and use AI making it more accessible, reliable, and impactful.

You’ll join a lean, high-impact team where collaboration is key. We work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security partners to ensure the solutions we build are scalable, secure, and solve real-world problems.

What You’ll Do

• Define the AI Development Lifecycle: Establish and evolve the end‑to‑end AI development lifecycle, including guardrails, context management, and engineering standards that enable responsible and efficient AI adoption.
• Drive Adoption & Alignment: Lead cross‑functional initiatives that improve how teams build and ship software, with a focus on scaling AI capabilities and enhancing developer experience.
• Build for Developers: Design and deliver self‑service capabilities that simplify how engineers build, test, and deploy applications—especially AI‑powered ones. This includes reusable tooling, templates, and patterns that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Set and uphold high standards for platform and AI engineering. Mentor engineers and stakeholders, and promote clean, scalable, and maintainable design practices.
• Think Like a Product Owner: Treat internal platforms and AI capabilities as products. Continuously iterate based on developer feedback, usability, and adoption metrics.
• Enable AI at Scale: Develop the foundational components that allow teams to safely and effectively leverage AI, including shared services, reusable modules, and well‑defined integration patterns.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Strong programming skills and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, etc.).
• Strong problem‑solving skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without direct authority.
• Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity or interest in AI/ML systems, particularly LLM‑based applications.
• Experience with workflow frameworks such as Temporal.io.
• Experience with golang & python.

Why Join Us

• Shape how AI is built and adopted across a large‑scale engineering organization.
• High‑impact role with visibility and ownership.
• Collaborative, fast‑moving environment with real influence on technical direction.
• Work on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and developer experience.

What We Offer You

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance.
• Life insurance.
• Short & long term disability.
• Pre‑partum, maternity, parental and medical leave.
• Mental health wellness program.
• Adoption assistance.
• Wellness incentive.
• Pet insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• 14 annual holidays.Tuition assistance.
• Employee resource groups.

TrendAI is a leader in AI security. We not only delivered the first open‑weight, cybersecurity‑focused large language model, but also the industry’s first security companion agent evaluated directly by customers. Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform. In this role, you will partner with business leaders to design systems that can reason, learn, and protect—accelerating agility, speed of delivery, and data‑centric security. You will help transform cutting‑edge research into real‑world defense capabilities, protecting millions of users in the generative‑AI agent era and enabling enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats.

At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity.