Who we are looking for

State Street's Cyber Data & Analytics (CyberDNA) team is seeking an AI Security Automation Engineer to join our team to help shape the next generation of cybersecurity data, analytics, and AI-powered platforms. Partnering closely with Global Cyber Security teams, Infrastructure Teams, and Enterprise Continuity Services, this team develops advanced data platforms, intelligent automation solutions, and engineering capabilities that enable cybersecurity teams to make faster, AI-driven decisions and strengthen the firm's ability to detect, prevent, and respond to evolving cyber threats.

Why this role is important to us

Through innovation in AI, analytics, and automation, CyberDNA team plays a critical role in protecting State Street, its clients, and its partners from increasingly sophisticated global threat actors. This role sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and Full-Stack Software Development, with a primary focus on enabling secure, scalable, and governed AI adoption across the enterprise for supporting Cyber Security functions. The successful candidate will be part of a global AI security automation engineering team focused on delivering next-generation AI platforms, autonomous agents, security automation solutions, and data-driven applications that strengthen cyber resilience, accelerate innovation, and transform cybersecurity operations through intelligent automation.

What you will be responsible for

As an AI Security Automation Engineer, you will, under the guidance from a Lead/Senior Engineer:

• Build production-grade AI systems including agents, skills, memory patterns, guardrails, and tool-use orchestration
• Build retrieval and context-engineering approaches including embeddings, semantic search, grounding, summarization, and prompt/version management
• Engineer cloud-native AI services in AWS, Azure and GCP using containers and serverless patterns, event-driven messaging, and distributed data stores
• Build well-governed APIs and integrations that connect AI capabilities to security platforms, tools, and business processes
• Establish evaluation, research, regression testing, and observability frameworks to continuously improve quality and agent behavior
• Follow defined engineering standards for reliability, security, and safe AI operation across the platform lifecycle
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation/refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Experience developing, and deploying production-grade Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) based solutions, including agentic workflows, intelligent agents, and enterprise tool integration frameworks.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with expertise in designing and delivering cloud-native applications and services leveraging containers, serverless architectures, and modern public cloud platforms.
• Hands-on expertise developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including embeddings, semantic search, knowledge grounding, context engineering, prompt optimization, and prompt lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience utilizing enterprise-approved AI-assisted software development tools to accelerate application delivery, improve code quality, streamline testing, and enhance documentation, while ensuring outputs are validated through secure coding practices, peer review, and automated testing.
• Ability to collaborate and work with geographically distributed team members through virtual collaboration, fostering strong partnerships, driving technical outcomes, and building effective relationships across engineering organizations.
• Strong software development and automation skills with experience in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, Go (Golang), Bash, and PowerShell.
• LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, AutoGen, LangChain, or similar frameworks.
• Spark, Kafka, Delta Lake, Iceberg, and Airflow.
• Experience with vector databases, semantic search, and enterprise RAG platforms.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• 1-2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 1+ years of experience developing AI, Machine Learning, or Generative AI solutions.

Work Requirement

• Work shift is 8 AM – 5 PM local time with occasional Level 2-3 escalation resolution to support operational incidents
• This hybrid role includes an in-office presence requirement of 2–4 days per week, consistent with the organization's hybrid work policy.

Salary Range:

$70,000 - $118,750 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

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