Applied AI Engineer II

The Basics

As an Applied AI Engineer II you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified our software engineers are responsible for designing developing testing and deploying the products from the ground up while continuously iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

This position follows the Companys hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the Durham NC or Addison TX office a minimum of three days per week.

What youll do

• Design develop and deploy AI Agents and machine learning models to solve complex business problems
• Create and maintain backend systems for LLMs and AI Agents ensuring high performance and scalability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows
• Optimize and fine-tune models and AI Agents for performance accuracy and efficiency
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI model and AI Agent deployment
• Monitor and troubleshoot AI systems in production ensuring reliability and robustness
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI machine learning AI Agents and related technologies

Were looking for someone with

• Education
  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree preferred

• Experience
  • 3 years of professional experience
  • Proven experience as an AI Developer AI Engineer or similar role
  • Expert knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred) Python or Java and experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g. TensorFlow PyTorch)
  • Experience with LLMs AI Agents and natural language processing (NLP) techniques
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and containerization technologies
• Other
  • Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development and long-term code maintainability and supportability
  • Communicates effectively both technically and non-technically as well as in written and oral forms
  • Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
  • Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
  • Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools
  • Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industrys only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time seamless and autonomous allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity cost and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world Taniums customers include Fortune 100 organizations top US retailers top US commercial banks and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the worlds biggest technology companies system integrators and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty visit and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration respect and our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and its imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What youll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $154000 to $236000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors including but not limited to location education skills training and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical dental and vision plan family planning benefits health savings account flexible spending account transportation savings account 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match life accident and disability coverage business travel accident insurance employee assistance programs disability insurance and other well-being benefits.

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