Vanguard

AIThreatDetectionEngineer,SeniorSpecialist

$175–245k ~AI est. Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“AI Threat Detection Engineer, Senior Specialist at Vanguard. Skills: AI Threat Detection, Security Operations, Automation. Respond to cyber security alerts. Investigate security incidents”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years programming/scripting, 5+ years cloud platforms, 4+ years automation solutions, 4+ years security technologies, 5+ years SIEM platforms

Nice to Have

Hands-on AI/GenAI/LLM development

What You'll Do.

Respond to cyber security alerts

Investigate security incidents

Identify attack patterns

Suggest mitigation strategies

Monitor for compromises

Detect vulnerabilities

Detect network security threats

Facilitate security operations

Facilitate incident response

Develop security controls

Manage security controls

Maintain security controls

Enhance security controls

Streamline SOC operations

Improve SOC efficiency

Support LLM use cases

Evaluate AI technologies

Contribute to SOC innovation

Implement AI safeguards

Implement AI controls

Ensure secure AI usage

Ensure responsible AI usage

Build automation workflows

Write maintainable code

Write production-ready code

Collaborate with security teams

Collaborate with engineering teams

Collaborate with platform teams

Deliver AI-enabled solutions

Support AI agent development

Support AI agent deployment

Apply AI best practices

Mentor junior team members

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams; Security teams; Engineering teams; Platform teams

Full Job Description

The AI Threat Detection Engineer, Senior Specialist is responsible for developing and implementing AI-driven capabilities that enhance Security Operations Center (SOC) effectiveness. This role focuses on building automation and intelligent solutions to improve threat detection, streamline workflows, and reduce manual effort. Working closely with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, this individual contributes to the delivery of secure, scalable solutions that support SOC modernization. **Core Responsibilities** * Leads and responds to escalated cyber security alerts, cyber incidents, or related security investigations. Identifies real-time complex attack patterns and suggests mitigation strategies. * Leads the processes, tools and measures to monitor and detect compromises, risks, vulnerabilities, network security threats, tools and tactics used by modern and emerging threat actors. Facilitates security operations and incident response technologies and methodologies. * Develops, manages, maintains and enhances security controls (alerts, rules, policies, and signatures) for the security platforms. * Develop and enhance AI agents to streamline SOC operations and improve efficiency * Design and optimize prompts and workflows to support LLM-based security use cases * Evaluate emerging AI technologies and contribute to innovation within the SOC * Implement safeguards and controls to ensure secure and responsible AI usage * Build APIs, integrations, and automation workflows to support AI-driven capabilities * Write clean, maintainable, and production-ready code aligned with engineering best practices * Collaborate with security, engineering, and platform teams to deliver AI-enabled solutions * Support AI agent development and deployment across SOC use cases * Stay current on AI advancements and apply best practices to ongoing work * Mentors junior team members to improve their technical acumen * Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigne

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