Principal Security Engineer - AI

7AI
Boston
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Communication","Cross-functional collaboration","Technical leadership","Mentorship"]

Lead the evolution of AI cybersecurity defense, shaping how security operations use AI agents to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at scale. Define next-generation security use cases and guide platform strategy across cloud and enterprise environments. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams, work directly with customers on their security posture, and build automated attack simulations, adversary emulation, and large-scale security environments.

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7AI
7AI
3 months ago

Principal Security Engineer - AI

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Job Summary

Lead the evolution of AI cybersecurity defense, shaping how security operations use AI agents to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at scale. Define next-generation security use cases and guide platform strategy across cloud and enterprise environments. Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams, work directly with customers on their security posture, and build automated attack simulations, adversary emulation, and large-scale security environments.
Location: Boston
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the evolution of advanced AI cybersecurity defense solutions, including incident response strategy, detection engineering, automated response, and threat hunting/research.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and research teams to influence platform roadmap and AI security solutions.
  • •Work directly with customers to understand their security posture and processes and support their AI transformation journey.
  • •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 methodologies.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant SOC, Blue Team, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, or Incident Response experience, plus SOAR 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.
  • •Past experience collaborating or working directly with customers.
  • •Strong understanding of security concepts across endpoint, identity, cloud, and networking.
Experience:15+ years
Skills:Problem-solvingCommunicationCross-functional collaborationTechnical leadershipMentorship
Tech Stack:AI agentsPythonSOAR

Company Brief

7AI
7AI builds an agentic security platform that uses AI agents to offload non-human security work and improve cybersecurity operations. It focuses on helping enterprise defenders handle alert volume, automate investigations, and strengthen security outcomes.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Boston, United States
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