Security Automation Engineer (AI)

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

Salary: $112,500–$187,500 annually

Company

hirify.global provides data, technology, and information solutions while developing security capabilities for global operations and customers.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain security response automations on an agentic AI SOC platform, including migration of existing Splunk SOAR playbooks.
• Build end-to-end agentic workflows with prompts, agents, tool integrations, guardrails, output evaluation, and human review.
• Develop integrations across SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence, case management, and ITSM platforms using REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven patterns.
• Build Python tools, services, and APIs that expand platform capabilities and reduce repetitive analyst work.
• Partner with detection engineering to convert security detections into automated response workflows.
• Improve engineering standards through Git-based development, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and runbooks.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering, security automation, or software engineering with a strong cybersecurity focus.
• Hands-on experience with SOAR or security automation platforms such as Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, Tines, or Torq.
• Experience with modern LLM platforms, including agent design, prompt design, tool-use patterns, and model-output evaluation.
• Strong production-level Python development and experience with REST APIs, JSON services, webhooks, authentication, OAuth, API keys, and secrets management.
• Knowledge of SOC operations, incident response workflows, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Ability to work in the Chicago hybrid arrangement with regular in-person attendance at an assigned office.

Nice to have

• Production experience with autonomous or semi-autonomous agent systems and agentic AI security platforms.
• Experience with LLM fine-tuning, systematic evaluations, safety testing, or red-teaming.
• Exposure to Splunk Enterprise Security, SPL, detection logic, or detection-as-code.
• Experience with ServiceNow, FastAPI, Flask, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or DevOps practices.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical workstreams.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with day-one eligibility, plus HSA and FSA options.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance, with optional legal, pet, travel accident, and long-term care coverage.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, caregiver support, 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.
• Well-being support including therapy, coaching, meditation, and 24/7 emotional wellness resources.