AI Research Engineer, Tenable
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3+ days a week in office
Cybersecurity & exposure management
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Cybersecurity & exposure management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower organizations to understand and reduce cyber risk.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Desirable
- Cyber security background
- AI Security and Red Teaming experience
- Experience with security standards and frameworks such as NIST 800-53, CIS, HIPAA, PCI and DISA STIGS.
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Tenable is a cybersecurity company delivering a comprehensive suite of products for cloud security, vulnerability management, identity exposure and more. It provides these through its exposure management platform, "Tenable One", which is designed to anticipate attacks and reduce cyber risk.
As cyber-attacks get more sophisticated, businesses need a range of tools to proactively combat threats. By providing all these tools in one place, Tenable solidifies itself as a strong option in the market. This is reflected in it winning a number of industry recognitions.
One of the company's latest moves was to acquire Eureka Security, which has enabled it to add data security posture management to its offering. If it continues to broaden its platform and meet the changing cybersecurity needs of its clients, then Tenable should remain on the path to success.
Kirsty
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2015
$250m
SERIES B
Sep 2012
$50m
SERIES A
Total funding: $300m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive benefits to support physical and mental wellbeing and family-forming plans.
- Work/Life Balance: Generous paid time off with hybrid or remote opportunities available for most positions.
- Financial Savings and Security: Retirement plans, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP), equity incentives, life and disability insurance.
- Professional Development: Customizable opportunities, including learning courses, mentorship, leadership programs and tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Town Center, Columbia, MD
Leadership
Jack Huffard
(Co-Founder)Former COO and President of Tenable, they now serve as a Board Member. They are also a Board Member of Norfolk Southern Corporation, Chair of the Board of Directors at Immersive Labs and Exec Chairman of the Board of Directors at Strivacity.
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