Security AI Engineer
- Negotiable
- England
- Contract
Job Title: Security AI Engineer
Duration: 6 months with chance of extension
Contract: Outside IR35
Location: Fully remote
We're looking for a Security AI Engineer to join an exciting programme focused on building autonomous security agents and next generation AI-driven security capabilities.
Working at the intersection of AI and cyber security, you'll help design and develop agentic systems capable of investigating security events, reasoning across complex environments, support incident response and drive automated remediation.
The focus is on applying agentic AI to real-world security operations, helping evolve traditional SOC processes into intelligent, autonomous workflows.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Designing and building agentic security agents
- Developing AI-driven solutions for SOC, incident response and security automation
- Building integrations with security and operational tooling
- Working with modern agent orchestration frameworks and MCP
- Contributing to self-healing infrastructure and automated remediation capabilities
- Helping shape the future of AI-powered security operations
What We're Looking For:
- This is a security first role. We are specifically looking for someone who has worked directly in security operations or built automation for security environments.
- Experience building AI agents or agentic AI systems applied to security use cases
- Strong software engineering skills, ideally Python
- Proven experience in SOC, SecOps, incident response or security engineering environments
- Ideally experience building security automation, SOAR workflows, detection/response automation, or similar systems
- Knowledge of agent orchestration frameworks and MCP
- Experience taking AI or automation solutions from proof of concept into production in a security context
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.