AbbVie

Agentic AI Security Engineer

AbbVie • $120K — $150K *
North Chicago, IL 60064In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field plus 7 years of experience; Master's with 6 years; or PhD with 2 years.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or closely related field.
  • Strong Python skills for building, debugging, and shipping production systems.
  • Hands-on experience in at least one security operation area: threat intelligence, detection engineering, incident response, cloud security, or application security.
  • Familiarity with agentic coding tools as part of daily development workflow, such as GitHub Copilot or similar.
  • Proven working knowledge of LLMs and AI/ML concepts, with practical application experience.
  • Experience integrating APIs and constructing data pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy AI agents to automate security workflows including threat detection and compliance monitoring.
  • Integrate AI/ML capabilities with security tools like SIEM, EDR, and cloud security platforms.
  • Develop and maintain orchestration pipelines, focusing on prompt engineering and tool integration.
  • Write production-level Python to build, test, and iterate on AI systems.
  • Set up logging and metrics within agents to assess their effectiveness against security KPIs.
  • Conduct adversarial testing to identify failure modes and vulnerabilities in agent behavior.
  • Collaborate with senior team members to convert research concepts into operational systems.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
  • Participation in long-term incentive programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are building a team that develops AI agents to solve real security problems -- detection, triage, response, risk assessment, and policy enforcement. This is a hands-on engineering role. You will design, build, test, and ship agentic AI systems that operate within our security stack.

You will work alongside senior engineers and researchers who are pushing the boundaries of what autonomous systems can do in cybersecurity. You will contribute production code from day one while developing deep expertise in both AI/ML and security operations.

Responsibilities:
  • Build and deploy AI agents that automate security workflows -- threat detection, alert triage, incident response, risk assessment, and compliance monitoring
  • Integrate large language models and other AI/ML capabilities with security tooling (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, cloud security platforms)
  • Develop and maintain agent orchestration pipelines, including prompt engineering, tool integration, and evaluation frameworks
  • Write Python (primarily) to build, test, and iterate on agent systems
  • Instrument agents with logging, monitoring, and metrics to measure effectiveness against security operations KPIs
  • Participate in adversarial testing of agent systems -- identify failure modes, edge cases, and security vulnerabilities in agent behavior
  • Collaborate with senior ICs to translate research concepts into production-ready systems
  • Contribute to agentic AI security policy, standards, and technical guidance -- informed by what you learn building and running these systems
  • Help shape best practices for safe and effective use of AI agents in security operations
  • Contribute to security position papers on emerging technologies -- high-level strategic documents that frame organizational thinking and drive downstream policy and technical guidance
  • Contribute to the AI Cybersecurity Maturity program across domains including application security, training, AI controls and infrastructure, AI discovery and inventory, operations and incident response, and policy and procedure development


Qualifications

Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field with 7 years' experience; or Master's Degree with 6 years' experience; or PhD with 2 years' experience.
  • Experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related field
  • Strong Python skills - you can build, debug, and ship production systems
  • Hands-on experience with at least one area of security operation: threat intelligence, detection engineering, incident response, cloud security, or application security
  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider, or similar) as part of your daily development workflow - we expect you to build with agents, not just build agents
  • Working knowledge of LLMs and AI/ML concepts -- you have built something with them, not just read about them
  • Experience integrating APIs and building data pipelines
  • Familiarity with security tooling (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners, cloud security tools)
  • Experience building AI agents or automation systems - you have shipped something, not just experimented
  • Ability to work independently on well-scoped problems and collaboratively on ambiguous ones

Preferred:
  • Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks and concepts (LangChain, AutoGen, custom frameworks)
  • Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and their AI/ML services
  • Background in threat intelligence, detection engineering, or security automation (SOAR, playbooks)
  • Exposure to adversarial testing or red teaming of AI systems
  • Interest in or experience contributing to security policy, standards, or technical guidance
  • Master's in computer science, Cybersecurity, or related field


Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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Learn more about AbbVie
Size
50,000 employees
Market Cap
$288.5 billion
Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
Revenue
$45.8 billion
NASDAQ
ABBV
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