San Jose, CA; Kansas City, MO SOC; Remote, USA; Sarasota, FL HQ Hybrid $190,000 - $250,000

TENEX.AI is hiring a Principal AI Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design & build the AI layer that powers autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows.
  • Develop and productionize large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines that operate on billions of security events.
  • Own evaluation & reliability—from prompt libraries and fine tuning to red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallback strategies.
  • Mentor & grow a cohort of AI engineers; run design reviews, uphold code quality, and instill a security-first mindset.
  • Partner tightly with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate real-world attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections.
  • Push the frontier—experiment with retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models (text + logs + graphs) to keep defenders decisively ahead.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
  • We practice pay transparency and reward performance.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Team

Structure: Principal AI Engineer will mentor and grow a cohort of AI engineers and partner with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success teams.

About company
TENEX.AI
An AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. A force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection.
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Department Engineering
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Posted 10 months ago