AI Security Engineer III - Agentic AI & Security Automation
Company: American Express
Location: Bengaluru
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-11-03
About this role
## Job highlights
- The ideal candidate is a strong Python developer with practical experience in AI / LLM technologies,AI agent development,REST API integrations,GitHub automation,CI / CD pipelines,and secure software development
- The candidate should be comfortable building production-quality automation solutions and applying emerging AI capabilities to solve real-world cybersecurity challenges
We are seeking an innovative and hands-on AI Security Engineer to design, develop, and implement AI-powered solutions that transform traditional cybersecurity processes through intelligent automation, agentic AI, and secure software engineering.
This role will primarily focus on developing autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents to identify, analyze, correlate, and prioritize security vulnerabilities; generate remediation recommendations; automate secure code and dependency fixes; validate proposed changes; create GitHub pull requests; and proactively engage application owners through intelligent notification and escalation workflows.
The engineer will build AI-driven capabilities to streamline vulnerability remediation across application code, APIs, software dependencies, container images, and cloud environments. A key objective is to reduce manual remediation effort, accelerate vulnerability closure, improve reporting accuracy, and enable application teams to address security risks more efficiently.
The engineer will also contribute to AI-driven innovations across Cryptographic Metadata, Automated Assurance, and Cryptographic Lifecycle Visibility, improving security posture, inventory accuracy, compliance, and proactive risk management.
The ideal candidate is a strong Python developer with practical experience in AI/LLM technologies, AI agent development, REST API integrations, GitHub automation, CI/CD pipelines, and secure software development. The candidate should be comfortable building production-quality automation solutions and applying emerging AI capabiliti...