Senior Principal AI Engineer
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Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, Oct 29, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Setting the technical direction for LLM and agentic AI systems, the full-time Senior Principal AI Engineer will tackle complex challenges, establish architectural standards, and drive innovation to enhance cybersecurity products remotely.
Key responsibilities
- Define the AI technical vision and multi-year roadmap for LLM and agentic systems across Detection and Response and Exposure and Remediation
- Lead high-risk technical initiatives, including fine-tuning and distillation of open-source LLMs on security data
- Mentor and develop engineering talent while representing the AI engineering team to executives and the external community
Required qualifications
- 14+ years of software or ML engineering experience, with 2+ years in production LLM or agentic AI systems; a PhD in a relevant field is preferred
- Proven track record of building scalable AI systems with company-wide impact through technical leadership
- Expertise in LLMs, including transformer architecture and advanced PyTorch skills
- Hands-on experience with fine-tuning and post-training of LLMs, including various training methods
- Deep knowledge of inference optimization and context engineering for AI systems
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