Cyber Threat Defense Sr AI​/ML Engineer

Job Description

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Bank of America's Global Information Security (GIS) team is seeking a Cyber Threat Defense Sr AI/ML Engineer to build and integrate advanced AI and machine learning capabilities into our cyber defense ecosystem. This person will drive innovation across preventative, detective, and responsive security controls by engineering the full spectrum of intelligent automation: deterministic and scripted automation, custom machine learning models, large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI systems.

This is a senior individual contributor role balancing hands‑on engineering with technical leadership, working closely with leadership and engineering teams to drive AI integration into cyber defense.

This engineer will focus on applying AI to defend against modern threats, including threat actors who are themselves leveraging AI, and will partner with security subject matter experts across GIS on defending the bank's own use of AI. The ideal candidate is an experienced AI/ML engineer with deep fundamentals in machine learning theory and practice, strong production engineering discipline, and a working understanding of cybersecurity, who knows that the right solution is sometimes a script, sometimes a model, and sometimes an agent.

• Design, build, and deploy AI‑powered capabilities for threat hunting, anomaly detection, and automated incident response over large‑scale security telemetry.
• Develop and operationalize custom machine learning models and LLM‑based workflows tailored to cybersecurity use cases, owning the lifecycle from data preparation and feature engineering through training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Match the technique to the problem: apply deterministic automation, classical machine learning, or generative AI (or a combination) based on the problem structure, the available data, and the operational risk profile.
• Build LLM‑based tooling that multiplies analyst effectiveness, such as investigation support, detection engineering assistance, and knowledge retrieval.
• Partner with GIS operational and technical teams to identify opportunities for AI‑driven enhancements to security controls and architecture.
• Prototype and evaluate emerging AI technologies for applicability in cyber threat detection and response.
• Collaborate with offensive security teams to develop AI‑enhanced red teaming and adversarial emulation capabilities.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that support scalable, well‑governed AI integration across GIS security controls.
• Promote responsible and ethical use of AI in security operations, partnering with model governance stakeholders on bias mitigation and explainability.
• Act as a technical expert on AI‑driven cybersecurity initiatives, advising senior leadership and mentoring…