AI Research Engineer

Who is Tenable?

Tenable® is the Exposure Management company. 44,000 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 they’ll 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 you’re 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 company’s proprietary data using vector
databases.

• Evaluation and Testing: Create evaluation sets to test the accuracy, latency, and
reliability of your agents.

What You'll 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:

• Cyber security background.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

• AI Security and Red Teaming experience.

• Experience with security standards and frameworks such as NIST 800-53, CIS, HIPAA, PCI and DISA STIGS.​

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