Lead AI Security Automation Engineer

Overview

State Street’s Cyber Data & Analytics (CyberDNA) team seeks a Lead AI Security Automation Engineer to develop next‑generation cybersecurity data, analytics, and AI‑powered platforms. The role sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and Full‑Stack Software Development, focusing on secure, scalable, and governed AI adoption across the enterprise to support cyber security functions.

• Build, lead, and mentor a high‑performing team of AI Automation Engineers focused on advancing cybersecurity operations through automation and AI‑driven innovation.
• Lead the architecture and hands‑on delivery of scalable, reliable agentic AI platforms for security workflows.
• Design and build production‑grade AI systems, including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool‑use orchestration.
• Architect retrieval and context‑engineering approaches, including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management.
• Engineer cloud‑native AI solutions in AWS, Azure, and GCP using containers, serverless patterns, event‑driven messaging, and distributed data stores.
• Optimize platform performance across latency, throughput, scalability, caching, context efficiency, and cost controls.
• Build well‑governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes.
• Establish evaluation, research, regression testing, and observability frameworks to continuously improve quality and agent behavior.
• Define engineering standards for reliability, security, and safe AI operation across the platform lifecycle.
• Mentor senior and junior engineers and influence engineering direction through code reviews, architecture forums, and cross‑team technical leadership.
• Leverage enterprise‑authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity.
• Apply knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise‑authorized AI‑assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

• Demonstrated experience architecting, developing, and deploying production‑grade Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions, including agentic workflows, intelligent agents, and enterprise tool integration frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with expertise in designing and delivering cloud‑native applications and services leveraging containers, serverless architectures, and modern public cloud platforms.
• Proven experience building highly scalable distributed systems utilizing asynchronous processing, event‑driven architectures, durable messaging, and high‑performance data access patterns.
• Hands‑on expertise developing Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including embeddings, semantic search, knowledge grounding, context engineering, prompt optimization, and prompt lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing AI evaluation, testing, monitoring, and observability frameworks to measure model quality, reliability, performance, and safe operation in production environments.
• Strong API design and integration experience, including the development of secure, reusable, and scalable platform services that enable enterprise‑wide adoption of AI capabilities.
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills with a track record of mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, influencing technology strategy, and collaborating effectively with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Hands‑on experience utilizing enterprise‑approved AI‑assisted software development tools to accelerate application delivery, improve code quality, streamline testing, and enhance documentation, while ensuring outputs are validated through secure coding practices, peer review, and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of responsible AI principles, including data privacy, security, governance, resiliency, and risk management, with the ability to guide teams in the safe and effective use of AI technologies.
• Deep understanding of cybersecurity functions supporting threat detection…