# AI & Automation Engineer at Sophos

- Company: Sophos
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Remote
- Location: Romania · Remote
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-05
- Skills: AI automation, Security Operations Center
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sophos/350696b5-da25-4f67-ac53-9683865dcb6b

## Description

Role Summary
The Senior AI Engineer leads technical design and delivery of AI automation across multiple Security Operations Center (SOC) workflows and services. You will remain hands-on while shaping technical approach, resolving ambiguous requirements, and building capabilities other engineers can reuse. You will partner across teams to improve investigation quality and response time and establish engineering standards.



What You Will Do

 - Lead complex initiatives spanning diverse security services teams; resolve design tradeoffs and implement critical components using large language models (LLMs), agents, and retrieval pipelines.

 - Define reusable architecture for agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool integrations; choose deterministic or model-driven approaches based on evidence, risk, and cost.

 - Establish evaluation methods and release criteria across workflows, covering factual accuracy, reliability, false positives, and regressions against validated evidence.

 - Design consistent controls for least-privilege access, sensitive data, prompt injection, output validation, and analyst approval of high-impact response actions.

 - Lead SIEM, SOAR, XDR/EDR, threat intelligence, and case management integration design; address scale, API failures, and dependencies across services.

 - Improve shared Python components, testing, CI/CD, observability, and rollback practices; lead design reviews and coach engineers on difficult implementation decisions.

 - Own reliability and measurable outcomes across related workflows, using investigation quality, an

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