Principal AI Architect

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.

At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.

AI Fearlessly.

TrendAI’s security products protect hundreds of millions of devices and cloud workloads worldwide. As AI reshapes how security systems are built and operated, we are investing in the architects who can design AI-native systems from first principles — not just integrate AI into existing stacks, but rethink what those stacks should look like.

We are looking for a Principal AI Architect with deep technical roots in a security domain, genuine fluency in agentic AI systems, and — as that credibility builds over time — the ability to represent TrendAI’s technical thinking at the world’s most demanding venues.

This is a senior individual contributor role with real ownership. You drive the technical direction of strategic AI initiatives — from shaping product architecture early in the design cycle, through hands‑on technical validation, to ensuring the solution lands the way it was intended. You earn your influence not through seniority alone, but through the quality of your judgment and your ability to move things from idea to working reality.

• Own the architectural vision for how AI integrates into your domain — from on-device inference and cloud-assisted pipelines to fully agentic decision workflows
• Design AI-native systems from the ground up, not as layers on top of existing architectures
• Define trade‑off frameworks for AI capabilities within real production constraints: latency, resource budgets, accuracy, evasion resistance, and platform-specific requirements
• Assess AI feature proposals for architectural soundness, data dependency risks, and long-term maintainability
• Identify where consolidation or modernization efforts create AI architecture opportunities — and where they introduce compounding risk

• Design the boundary between autonomous AI decision-making and human expert judgment in critical security workflows
• Architect multi‑agent systems and agentic pipelines appropriate for high‑stakes security environments: tool use, orchestration, memory, and guardrails
• Reason rigorously about failure modes in agentic systems — hallucination under adversarial input, over‑automation, cascading errors, and loss of human oversight
• Stay at the frontier of agentic AI research and translate emerging capabilities into concrete architecture proposals

• Drive the technical direction of key AI product initiatives from early concept through architecture validation and implementation — not just advising, but owning the technical narrative end to end
• Lead the technical case-making for strategic initiatives: structure the problem, define evaluation criteria, pressure-test design options, and build the artifacts that move decisions forward
• Work hands‑on to validate technical approaches — prototype where needed, review implementation against architecture intent, and course-correct when execution drifts from design
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and research leads to translate strategic bets into technically grounded roadmaps with clear dependencies and risk profiles
• Hold the technical bar on critical initiatives: push back on shortcuts, identify when a direction is fundamentally unsound, and propose alternatives that are both rigorous and achievable

• Define what meaningful AI adoption looks like for engineering and research teams — beyond tool usage, into workflow integration and architectural thinking
• Identify engineers and teams who are genuinely advancing AI-native development and help systematize what they are doing
• Build evaluation frameworks that engineering…