Principal Agentic AI Security Engineer

Location: North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Salary: $141,500–$268,500 per year

Company

hirify.global develops medicines and solutions for serious health conditions across immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and aesthetics.

What you will do

• Architect, build, and ship autonomous AI agent systems for security operations, including detection, investigation, response, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, and risk assessment.
• Develop secure agentic AI frameworks, tooling, evaluation methods, testing methodologies, and deployment patterns.
• Research adversarial robustness, secure agent-to-agent communication, autonomous decision-making guardrails, and AI security failure modes.
• Integrate LLMs, custom models, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud platforms, and vulnerability scanners into agent architectures.
• Publish technical guidance, security policies, and position papers on emerging AI security threats.
• Set technical direction and mentor engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and technical leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 9 years of experience, master’s degree with 8 years, or PhD with 4 years.
• Substantial hands-on experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, or security research, with deep expertise in at least two security domains.
• Strong software engineering skills and production development experience; Python is required.
• Experience building AI agents and AI/ML-powered security tools or automation at scale.
• Daily hands-on experience with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or Aider.
• Original technical contributions, experience developing adopted standards or frameworks, and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with agent orchestration and autonomous systems, including LangChain, AutoGen, or MCP.
• Background in adversarial machine learning, AI red teaming, or AI safety.
• Knowledge of NIST, ISO 27001, SOX, OWASP, or MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Published security research, open-source contributions, or experience in regulated industries such as healthcare.
• Security clearance eligibility.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on solving novel security problems.
• Paid time off, vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
• 401(k) and eligibility for long-term incentive programs.