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Security Engineer, Detection & Response - Global Security Organization - Threat Management Incident Response and Investigation
San Jose, California · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years
About the job
Build and operate enterprise-scale detection systems to identify cyber threats and AI agent security risks across security telemetry.
What you'll do
- Own detection rules, behavioral models, and pipelines from log ingestion through alerting.
- Build streaming anomaly detection pipelines using statistical methods and unsupervised learning; hunt historical logs for threats and detection gaps.
- Develop detection for AI agent attacks and interactions, and optimize alert quality and logging standards.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in information security, cybersecurity engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience processing and correlating large-scale, multi-source security telemetry.
- Foundation in data analysis, statistics, and applied machine learning for anomaly detection; hands-on experience building SIEM/EDR detection rules or threat-hunting queries.
- Knowledge of AI agent security risks and hardening strategies, including prompt injection, unauthorized tool execution, and denial of service.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with MITRE ATLAS and applying it to AI system threat modeling and risk assessment.
- LLM/agent detection experience, agent loop architecture knowledge, or global enterprise-scale detection operations experience.
Tools
MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, SIEM, EDR
AI focus
Detect AI agent abuse and other AI-specific risks, including unauthorized tool calls, agent escape, multi-agent collusion, instruction manipulation, and data exfiltration; monitor agent–LLM–tool–data interactions.
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