Principal Engineer, Security AI Tooling and Automation

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; hybrid work with in-person responsibilities at an assigned hirify.global office at least two days per week.

U.S. base salary: $168,750–$281,250 annually.

Company

hirify.global provides data, analytics, and technology products while developing cybersecurity capabilities across vulnerability management, AI governance, risk and compliance, and risk intelligence.

What you will do

• Build and maintain an agentic automation framework covering tool invocation, orchestration, state management, retries, observability, and failure handling for security workflows.
• Develop internal security tooling, vulnerability intelligence interfaces, remediation-tracking integrations, and operator-facing dashboards.
• Integrate security data sources through APIs, connectors, and normalization pipelines that create a coherent queryable data model.
• Automate remediation initiation and tracking, including fix workflows, SLA escalation, and validated resolution.
• Embed security automation into CI/CD pipelines with automated fix proposals and pre-production security gates.
• Set technical direction, ensure production reliability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with security and engineering stakeholders.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of hands-on experience in security engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering, including a strong security engineering component.
• Strong experience with API integration, data-pipeline engineering, and production-scale internal developer or operator tooling.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability classes, exploit mechanics, and remediation patterns.
• Ability to design reliable, observable, maintainable automation systems; make build-versus-integrate decisions; and deliver in an embedded team environment.
• Production experience building agentic AI or LLM-powered automation frameworks in Python or Go, including tool use, orchestration, and multi-step workflows.
• Experience engineering CI/CD pipelines and automated security enforcement gates.
• Experience operating integrations, data connectors, normalization pipelines, observability, alerting, state management, retry logic, and failure handling.
• Ability to maintain internal security tooling, dashboards, remediation integrations, and automation used by security and engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Security tooling or vulnerability-intelligence platform experience.
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks and operating LLM workflows reliably in production.
• Experience with container and image hardening, infrastructure as code, or runtime security instrumentation.
• Background in open-source security tooling, security-research automation, or exploit-validation tooling.
• Experience in financial services.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with regular virtual and in-person responsibilities.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA options with day-one eligibility.
• Paid parental leave, caregiver support, adoption and fertility assistance, and dependent care benefits.
• 401(k) with employer match, ESPP, tuition reimbursement, career coaching, and financial wellness resources.
• Flexible time off or paid time off, up to 12 paid holidays, commuter benefits, and paid volunteer time.
• Life, disability, legal, pet, and travel accident coverage plus mental and emotional wellness support.