TENEX.AI
Principal AI Engineer
San Jose, CA +3 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 17, 2025
- Location
- San Jose, CA
Sarasota, FL HQ
Remote, USA
Kansas City, MO SOC - Experience
- 10+ years of software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Leads the design and development of scalable AI systems for autonomous cybersecurity detection, investigation, and remediation.
What you'll do
- Build AI systems for autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation.
- Productionize LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines; own evaluation and reliability.
- Mentor AI engineers and collaborate across teams to develop security detections.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software development experience building production systems with modern programming languages.
- Deep knowledge of LLM architecture, prompt engineering, and vector database workflows; hands-on experience building agents and evaluation harnesses.
- Deep understanding of microservices, containerization, and event-driven systems; strong API design and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Prior cybersecurity experience; experience with graph databases or security-focused knowledge graphs.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security or experience leading teams in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
Tools
Python, Go, Rust, Java, LangChain/LangGraph, Agno AGI, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Designs and productionizes AI for cybersecurity, including LLMs, RAG, agents, graph-based reasoning, multimodal models, evaluation, and automated detection and remediation.
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