7AI
Principal Security Engineer - AI
$200K–$220K
Boston, MA · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted May 28, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years in cybersecurity; includes significant time in the listed security roles.
About the job
Leads AI cybersecurity defense strategy and helps customers transform security operations using AI across cloud and enterprise environments.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, threat hunting, threat research, and security automation.
- Partner with product, engineering, and research teams on platform strategy and roadmap; advise customers on AI security transformation.
- Build attack simulations and adversary emulation environments, and provide technical leadership and mentorship.
What they ask for
- 15+ years in cybersecurity, including significant SOC, Blue Team, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, or Incident Response experience, plus strong SOAR and security automation experience.
- Deep understanding of security operations, attacker methodologies, and enterprise security architectures.
- Hands-on coding experience with Python or similar languages.
- Experience working directly with customers and security knowledge spanning endpoint, identity, cloud, and networking.
Pay
USD 200K – USD 220K base salary
Tools
Python, SOAR
AI focus
Decide where AI can reliably take over detection, investigation, and response versus where human oversight is needed; lead AI-driven security operations and autonomous defense work.
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