Amazon's Security team is looking for a Senior Agentic AI Engineer to design and build agent-based systems that enable the security team to operate at scale on a first-of-its-kind AI Factory. This is a greenfield opportunity: we are building an entirely new security program on a novel platform with no inherited tooling or automation. We expect our teams to be building agent-first, using teams of agents for delivery across detection, response, compliance, and operational workflows. You will architect and implement multi-agent systems that decompose complex security processes into coordinated autonomous workflows. We value strong process decomposition skills, production-quality engineering, and the ability to design systems that operate reliably in disconnected, high-security environments.
This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
Key job responsibilities
• Architect and build multi-agent systems for security operations, detection, compliance, and workflow automation.
• Decompose complex security processes into coordinated agent workflows.
• Design reliable agent orchestration patterns for high-security, air-gapped environments.
• Implement robust error handling, observability, and human-in-the-loop controls for autonomous systems.
• Define standards and patterns for agent development across the security team.
• Evaluate and integrate agentic frameworks, adapting them for classified environments.
• Partner with security engineers to identify processes suitable for agent-based automation.
A day in the life
You will own security-centric AI outcomes: setting technical direction, identifying the highest-value opportunities, defining measurable success criteria, and ensuring that agentic capabilities improve security and engineering results rather than simply increase automation. You will work across developers, security engineers, and other technical partners to understand existing development processes and determine which work can be safely and effectively automated with agentic AI. You will distinguish those opportunities from problems better solved through conventional software or deterministic automation, build alignment around priorities, and drive selected initiatives from concept through deployment and adoption.
You will prototype agentic workflows and lead other engineers in turning successful prototypes into maintainable production capabilities. This includes defining architecture and engineering standards, decomposing work across agents and traditional components, providing agents with appropriate context and tools, establishing permissions and human approval boundaries, and ensuring the resulting automation has meaningful tests, operational measures, and accountable owners.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.
Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.
Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
