Wireless Security Detection Engineer

Amazon; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer for the Wireless Security Assessments team. You will design and maintain cloud-based detection logic, analyze RF telemetry and sensor data, and build data pipelines that surface actionable security intelligence across facilities.

Travel up to 50% is expected, with US citizenship required for the role. You will own investigations, collaborate with partner teams, and push detection innovations using AI-assisted automation while ensuring secure, scalable

Qualifications

• 3+ years of security-related professional experience.
• 3+ years in detection engineering, security data analysis, or security operations engineering.
• 1+ years hands-on experience with wireless security tools and concepts (e.g., wireless packet capture, spectrum analysis, WIDS, or wireless protocol analysis).
• Experience with detection engineering and/or anomaly detection within security—writing detection logic, rules, or threat signatures for production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-based detection logic for wireless security threats using telemetry from distributed sensor systems.
• Analyze large-scale security data—RF metadata, wireless IDS alerts, syslog, and sensor telemetry—to identify anomalies and security issues.
• Develop data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and enrich wireless telemetry for continuous assessment and detection.
• Own wireless security investigations from framing through outcome delivery.
• Leverage AI-assisted workflows for data collection, triage, and pattern recognition.
• Conduct targeted on-site wireless assessments when physical validation is required.

Skills

Security engineering

Data analysis

Wireless security

Python

Cloud AWS

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Cybersecurity

Tools

Splunk

OpenSearch

ELK

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Security Engineer for the Wireless Security Assessments team. You will design and maintain cloud-based detection logic, analyze RF telemetry and sensor data, and build data pipelines that surface actionable security intelligence across facilities.

Travel up to 50% is expected, with US citizenship required for the role. You will own investigations, collaborate with partner teams, and push detection innovations using AI-assisted automation while ensuring secure, scalable