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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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