Senior AI Engineer - Cybersecurity

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Description

United's Digital Technology team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

The Sr. Engineer – Cybersecurity supports efforts to mature agentic AI development capabilities for United Airlines Cybersecurity and Digital Risk. You will be part of a cross-disciplinary Cyber team responsible for building, deploying, and continuously improving AI agents and agentic frameworks that automate complex cybersecurity workflows across identity and access management, application security, cloud security, governance, risk, compliance, and security operations. This role will focus on developing modular AI skills, secure integrations, reusable agentic workflows, and production-ready automation that enable AI-driven tools to operate accurately, safely, and securely across the enterprise. This role will help improve automated cyber controls, architecture reviews, security playbooks, workflows, processes, and overall security posture.

• Design, build, and deploy intelligent AI agents capable of executing complex cybersecurity workflows across IAM, application security, GRC, cloud security, and security operations.

• Create and manage modular AI instructions, skills, prompts, and workflows that enable large language models and agentic frameworks to perform domain-specific cybersecurity tasks accurately and safely.

• Develop AI-assisted workflows to accelerate secure code reviews, infrastructure-as-code analysis, threat modeling, control validation, and compliance reporting for enterprise applications and platforms.

• Write robust integration code to connect custom AI agents with enterprise tools including identity providers, CI/CD pipelines, SIEM platforms, vulnerability management tools, ticketing systems, cloud platforms, and APIs.