Trend Micro

Trend Micro

Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI

Austin · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
PythonGoCloud PlatformsCI/CDPlatform EngineeringTemporalMachine LearningNLPLLMsDesign SystemsResearchCollaborationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges?
  • Do you instinctively see the importance in every detail?
  • Your work will directly shape how teams adopt and use AI making it more accessible, reliable, and impactful.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.
  • At TrendAI™, we're always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together.
  • Here, your work goes beyond building a career.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve how teams build and ship software, with a focus on scaling AI capabilities and enhancing developer experience.
  • Design and deliver self-service capabilities that simplify how engineers build, test, and deploy applications-especially AI-powered ones.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software development experience
  • Experience with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, etc.)
  • Strong programming skills and engineering fundamentals
  • 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:
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Familiarity or interest in AI/ML systems, particularly LLM-based applications
  • Experience with workflow frameworks such as Temporal.io
  • Experience with golang & python

Compensation

  • 14 Annual Holidays

Benefits

  • 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
  • Wellness Incentive
  • Tuition Assistance
  • Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform.
  • 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.

Company info

  • 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.

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