Principal Security Engineer - AI

The role

You will lead AI cybersecurity defense work including incident response, detection engineering, and threat hunting. You will shape platform strategy and work directly with customers to guide their AI security transformation.

What you will do

• Lead AI cybersecurity defense work including incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, threat hunting, threat research, and security automation.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to shape the platform roadmap and AI security solutions.
• Work directly with customers to understand security posture and guide AI security transformation.
• Build and automate realistic attack simulations, adversary emulation scenarios, and large-scale security environments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship on security best practices, automation design, and incident response methodology.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in cybersecurity, including significant time in SOC, Blue Team, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, or Incident Response roles.
• Strong experience in SOAR platforms and security automation frameworks.
• Deep understanding of modern security operations, attacker methodologies, and enterprise security architectures.
• Hands-on coding experience with Python or similar languages.
• Experience collaborating directly with customers.
• Strong understanding of security concepts across endpoint, identity, cloud, and networking.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Genuine interest in AI-driven security operations and autonomous defense systems.

About the company

7AI is a foundational AI security company founded in 2024. The platform pairs a federated SIEM with AI agents to detect, investigate, respond, and hunt.