# AI and Automation Engineer at Sophos

- Company: Sophos
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Canada · Remote
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Salary: CA$86K–143K
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Skills: AI automation, large language models
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sophos/29c083a6-c9b5-4710-b8f2-d6afe4efc411

## Description

ROLE SUMMARY

The Senior 1 AI Engineer independently designs, builds, and operates complex AI automation for Security Services. You will own workflows from requirements through production, using large language models (LLMs), agents, and retrieval pipelines to reduce investigation effort and response time. You will make technical decisions within agreed architecture and help other engineers deliver reliable solutions.




What You Will Do

 - Independently deliver automation for security service use cases, translating service needs into implementation plans.

 - Design agent workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines grounded in security telemetry, threat intelligence, and analyst runbooks.

 - Build reliable integrations with SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, threat intelligence, and case management tools using secure REST APIs and event-driven interfaces.

 - Define evaluation criteria; test factual accuracy, missed threats, false positives, and regressions before releasing changes.

 - Implement least-privilege access, sensitive-data controls, output validation, and analyst approval for high-impact actions; test resistance to prompt injection from untrusted telemetry.

 - Ship tested Python services through code review and CI/CD; own monitoring, troubleshooting, failure handling, and rollback for your workflows.

 - Measure quality, effort reduction, workflow success, latency, and cost; use production evidence and user feedback to prioritize improvements.

 - Coordinate delivery with Security Operations, Threat Research, Data Science, and DevOps; document designs and

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