Staff AI Engineer - SOC Agent Platform

The Mission Panther is building the future of SOC automation through AI agents that fundamentally change how security teams operate. Our vision is to enable SOC teams to cover 5-10x more data without proportionally scaling headcount by automating the most time-intensive analyst work: alert triage, analysis, and risk validation. We're building intelligent agents that leverage our data pipeline and alerting capabilities to create a SOC team extension that gets smarter over time through collective intelligence. The Team + Role You'll work directly with our Founder CTO to build AI-powered SOC analyst solutions that sit at the intersection of security and cutting-edge ML and agentic engineering. This is a customer-centric product engineering role where you'll engage directly with security teams to understand their pain points and build agent-based tools that solve real problems. We're building autonomous security capabilities for alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search, all deeply integrated with Panther's ingestion pipeline. This role is ideal for engineers who combine strong development skills with security domain knowledge in SOC automation and XDR. What You'll Need Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of embeddings, vector databases, RAG, and agentic engineering frameworks Strong software development skills with the ability to build production-grade systems Experience with ML/AI agent architectures and feedback loops Domain Knowledge: Security expertise with hands-on knowledge of SOC workflows, alert triage, and threat analysis Understanding of XDR platforms and security automation challenges Passion for solving security team operational problems through intelligent automation Mindset: Customer-obsessed: You thrive on engaging directly with customers to listen, learn, and build innovation alongside them Startup mentality: You're comfortable with ambiguity and excited to build novel solutions in a fast-moving environment Product vision: You can translate technical capabilities into meaningful SOC team outcomes What You'll Do Build and enhance autonomous AI agents spanning alert triage, interactive chat, detection code generation, and text-to-search capabilities Create feedback loops between agents that integrate seamlessly with Panther's ingestion pipeline Develop our collective intelligence framework that enables agents to learn from observations and improve accuracy over time Partner directly with customers to understand SOC team workflows and validate agent effectiveness Expand our current suite of 4 SOC agents and design new agent capabilities that extend SOC team capacity Drive measurable impact: reduce triage time significantly and enable security teams to handle exponentially more data with existing resources About Panther Panther makes security teams smarter and faster than attackers. We're building the AI SOC platform that modern security teams need. Our Detection-as-Code approach, cloud-native architecture, and powerful security data lake help teams detect and respond to threats at scale. Security teams at leading companies use Panther to protect their organizations without the overhead and costs of legacy SIEM solutions. Founded by security practitioners who lived the pain of protecting large organizations, we've raised $140M from Coatue, Lightspeed, ICONIQ Growth, Snowflake Ventures, and others. We're a global, remote-first company serving customers worldwide. Our culture is built on flexibility, transparency, and collaboration. We operate by three core values: Create Customer Love, Be an Owner, and Take Care of the Team. We believe diverse perspectives make us better, and that building great security technology should also mean building a rewarding place to work. The Perks Competitive equity in a well-established cybersecurity company Unlimited PTO with a 15-day minimum, plus local federal holidays Latest tech equipment and budget for your pers ... (truncated, view full listing at source)