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TENEX.AI

Principal AI Engineer

Department
Engineering
Job Type / Location
Overland Park, Kansas
Experience Required
9+ years
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Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable, high-performance AI systems for autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows
  • Productionize large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines handling billions of security events
  • Own evaluation and reliability frameworks, including prompt libraries, fine-tuning, red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallback strategies
  • Mentor AI engineers, conduct design reviews, enforce code quality, and instill a security-first mindset
  • Collaborate with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections
  • Experiment with retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models (text + logs + graphs)

Requirements

  • 10+ years in software development with expertise in Python, Go, Rust, or Java
  • Deep knowledge of LLM architecture, prompt engineering, and vector database workflows
  • Hands-on experience building agents, orchestration frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, Agno AGI), and evaluation harnesses
  • Strong fundamentals in microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems
  • Proven ability to lead teams and drive technical innovation in high-growth environments

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