Trend Micro

Applied AI Engineer - Austin, TX

Trend Micro$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Strong programming skills and engineering fundamentals
  • Experience with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, etc.)
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  • Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without direct authority
  • Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset

Responsibilities

  • Define the AI Development Lifecycle to enable responsible and efficient AI adoption
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve software building and shipping processes
  • Design and deliver self-service capabilities for developers of AI-powered applications
  • Set and uphold high standards for platform and AI engineering while mentoring others
  • Treat internal platforms and AI capabilities as products, iterating based on feedback
  • Develop foundational components for safe and effective AI integration

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Short & Long Term Disability
  • Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave
  • Mental Health Wellness Program
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Wellness Incentive
  • Pet Insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off
  • 14 Annual Holidays
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Employee Resource Groups
Full Job Description

Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Austin, TX office with an expectation of 3 days onsite per week.

Position Summary: 

Do you love creating elegant solutions tohighly complexchallenges? Do you instinctively see the importance in every detail?We are looking for Applied AI Engineers to help define how engineers build with AI across our organization.

In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of Generative AI and platform engineering, designing the tools, workflows, and standards that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered applications. Your work will directly shape how teams adopt and use AI making it more accessible, reliable, and impactful. 

 

You’ll join a lean, high-impact team where collaboration is key. We work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security partners to ensure the solutions we build are scalable, secure, and solve real-world problems. 

 

What You'll Do:

  • Define the AI Development Lifecycle: Establish and evolve the end-to-end AI development lifecycle, including guardrails, context management, and engineering standards that enable responsible and efficient AI adoption.

  • Drive Adoption & Alignment: Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve how teams build and ship software, with a focus on scaling AI capabilities and enhancing developer experience.

  • Build for Developers: Design and deliver self-service capabilities that simplify how engineers build, test, and deploy applications—especially AI-powered ones. This includes reusable tooling, templates, and patterns that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.

  • Raise the Engineering Bar: Set and uphold high standards for platform and AI engineering. Mentor engineers and stakeholders, and promote clean, scalable, and maintainable design practices.

  • Think Like a Product Owner: Treat internal platforms and AI capabilities as products. Continuously iterate based on developer feedback, usability, and adoption metrics.

  • Enable AI at Scale: Develop the foundational components that allow teams to safely and effectively leverage AI, including shared services, reusable modules, and well-defined integration patterns.

What You Bring:

  • 5+ years of software development experience

  • Strong programming skills and engineering fundamentals

  • Experience with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, etc.)

  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

  • Ability to collaborate across teams and influence without direct authority

  • Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset

Bonus Points:

  • Familiarity or interest in AI/ML systems, particularly LLM-based applications

  • Experience with workflow frameworks such as Temporal.io

  • Experience with golang & python

Why Join Us:

  • Shape how AI is built and adopted across a large-scale engineering organization

  • High-impact role with visibility and ownership

  • Collaborative, fast-moving environment with real influence on technical direction

  • Work on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and developer experience

TrendAI is a leader in AI security. We not only delivered the first open-weight, cybersecurity-focused large language model, but also the industry’s first security companion agent evaluated directly by customers. Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform. In this role, you will partner with business leaders to design systems that can reason, learn, and protect—accelerating agility, speed of delivery, and data-centric security. You will help transform cutting-edge research into real-world defense capabilities, protecting millions of users in the generative-AI agent era and enabling enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats.

What We Offer You:

You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.

  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance

  • Life insurance

  • Short & Long Term Disability 

  • Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave

  • Mental Health Wellness Program

  • Adoption Assistance

  • Wellness Incentive

  • Pet Insurance

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Paid Time Off

  • 14 Annual Holidays

  • Tuition Assistance

  • Employee Resource Groups

We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.

Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.

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About Trend Micro

Trend Micro is a global cybersecurity company that develops software and services to protect against cyber threats. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Trend Micro's products and services include antivirus software, internet security software, and cloud security solutions. The company also provides threat intelligence and consulting services to help organizations improve their security posture. Trend Micro serves customers in a variety of industries, including government, healthcare, and financial services. The company has operations in more than 50 countries and is recognized as a leader in the cybersecurity industry.
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