Agentic AI Security Engineer

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

We are building a team that develops AI agents to solve real security problems -- detection, triage, response, risk assessment, and policy enforcement. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design, build, test, and ship agentic AI systems thatoperatewithin our security stack.

You will work alongside senior engineers and researchers who are pushing the boundaries of what autonomous systems can do in cybersecurity.You willcontribute production code from day one while developing deepexpertisein both AI/ML and security operations.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy AI agents that automate security workflows -- threat detection, alert triage, incident response, risk assessment, and compliance monitoring
• Integrate large language models and other AI/ML capabilities with security tooling (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud security platforms)
• Develop andmaintainagent orchestration pipelines, including prompt engineering, tool integration, and evaluation frameworks
• Write Python (primarily) to build, test, and iterate on agent systems
• Instrument agents with logging, monitoring, and metrics to measure effectiveness against security operations KPIs
• Participatein adversarial testing of agent systems --identifyfailure modes, edge cases, and security vulnerabilities in agent behavior
• Collaborate with senior ICs to translate research concepts into production-ready systems
• Contribute to agentic AI security policy, standards, and technical guidance -- informed by what you learn building and running these systems
• Help shape best practices for safe and effective use of AI agents in security operations
• Contribute to security position papers on emerging technologies -- high-level strategic documents that frame organizational thinking and drive downstream policy and technical guidance
• Contribute to the AI Cybersecurity Maturity program across domains including application security, training, AI controls and infrastructure, AI discovery and inventory, operations and incident response, and policy and procedure development

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field with 7 years experience; or Masters Degree with 6 years experience; or PhD with 2 years experience.
• Experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related field
• Strong Python skills - you can build, debug, and ship production systems
• Hands-on experience with at least one area of security operation: threat intelligence, detection engineering, incident response, cloud security, or application security
• Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider, or similar) as part of your daily development workflow - we expect you to build with agents, not just build agents
• Working knowledge of LLMs and AI/ML concepts --you havebuilt something with them, not just read about them
• Experience integrating APIs and building data pipelines
• Familiarity with security tooling (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, cloud security tools)
• Experience building AI agents or automation systems - you haveshipped something, not just experimented
• Ability to work independently on well-scoped problems and collaboratively on ambiguous ones

Preferred

• Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks and concepts (LangChain,AutoGen, custom frameworks)
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their AI/ML services
• Background in threat intelligence, detection engineering, or security automation (SOAR, playbooks)
• Exposure to adversarial testing or red teaming of AI systems
• Interest in or experience contributing to security policy, standards, or technical guidance
• Masters in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Additional Information

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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