Staff AI Engineer - SOC Agent Platform

About this role

The Mission


Panther is building the future of SOC automation through AI agents that fundamentally change how security teams operate. Our vision is to enable SOC teams to cover 5-10x more data without proportionally scaling headcount by automating the most time-intensive analyst work: alert triage, analysis, and risk validation. We're building intelligent agents that leverage our data pipeline and alerting capabilities to create a SOC team extension that gets smarter over time through collective intelligence.


The Team + Role


You'll work directly with our Founder & CTO to build AI-powered SOC analyst solutions that sit at the intersection of security and cutting-edge ML and agentic engineering. This is a customer-centric product engineering role where you'll engage directly with security teams to understand their pain points and build agent-based tools that solve real problems. We're building autonomous security capabilities for alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search, all deeply integrated with Panther's ingestion pipeline. This role is ideal for engineers who combine strong development skills with security domain knowledge in SOC automation and XDR.


What You'll Need


Technical Expertise:

• Deep understanding of embeddings, vector databases, RAG, and agentic engineering frameworks
• Strong software development skills with the ability to build production-grade systems
• Experience with ML/AI agent architectures and feedback loops

Domain Knowledge:

• Security expertise with hands-on knowledge of SOC workflows, alert triage, and threat analysis
• Understanding of XDR platforms and security automation challenges
• Passion for solving security team operational problems through intelligent automation

Mindset:

• Customer-obsessed: You thrive on engaging directly with customers to listen, learn, and build innovation alongside them
• Startup mentality: You're comfortable with ambiguity and exc...