AI Research Engineer

Who is Tenable

Tenable is the Exposure Management company. 44000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 65 percent of the Fortune 500 45 percent of the Global 2000 and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

What makes Tenable such a great place to work

Ask a member of our team and theyll answer Our people! We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers; all while creating a culture of belonging respect and excellence where we can be our best selves. When youre part of our #OneTenable team you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Role:

Tenable is looking for an AI Research Engineer to join our security research team. This position will involve building and deploying AI agents and workflows that can reason take action and solve complex problems for our users. Primary responsibility includes developing tools to automate content creation and rapidly prototype advanced Cyber Security features.

Your Opportunity:

• Works on advanced research and development initiatives.
• Build AI Agents: Design and implement AI agents using frameworks like LangChain LangGraph or Pydantic AI. You will define tools goals and constraints for agents to execute tasks autonomously.
• Workflow Automation: Develop end to end intelligent workflows that integrate LLMs with external APIs databases and internal tools (e.g. Slack Jira).
• RAG Implementation: Build and maintain Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
  pipelines to ground AI responses in our companys proprietary data using vector
  databases.
• Evaluation and Testing: Create evaluation sets to test the accuracy latency and
  reliability of your agents.

What Youll Need:

• Keep up to date with the advancements and developments in the security industry and perform research to keep our customers secure.
• Curious and Resilient temperament as you will be solving complex problems in a
  dynamic environment.
• Good programming skills: Go Python LLM Fundamentals API integration and
  automation.
• Ability to operate independently with minimal supervision as well as collaborate and work with others as part of the larger research team.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and able to shift priorities as needed.
• Willingness to explore and learn.
• B.S. degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• At least 2 years of R&D experience.
• Proven ability to independently research and publish findings in the cybersecurity
  domain space.

And ideally:

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