Software Engineer, AI & Automation

About this role

At NerdWallet, we're building tools and experiences that help people make smarter financial decisions. As a Software Engineer focused on AI & Automation within our Security organization, you'll build production software and AI-enabled systems that make security work more scalable, effective, and developer-friendly across NerdWallet.

You'll apply strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on AI experience to automate complex security workflows, build internal platforms and developer tooling, and help us rethink how security engineering operates in an AI-native environment. You do not need to come from a traditional security engineering background. We're looking for an engineer who has built and operated production software and AI-enabled systems, is curious about security, and is excited to develop deeper security expertise while solving meaningful problems at scale.

You'll have room to bring new ideas, influence how AI and automation practices evolve at NerdWallet, and shape a growing area within Security. This role reports to the Security Automation Manager.

# Projects you may be working on in this position include:

• Designing and building AI-enabled workflows and multi-agent systems that automate security design review, threat modeling, policy Q&A, vulnerability analysis, and other high-value security processes.
• Building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search experiences across large code and documentation repositories.
• Creating automated code-review capabilities that help identify insecure patterns and improve software quality earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Building production Python services and APIs that power AI-enabled security workflows, with thoughtful architecture, authentication, authorization, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Designing and operating scalable pipelines that ingest, process, index, and retrieve large volumes of code, documents, and events.
• Improving AI system quality through evalu...