✨ AI Insights & Summary
GuidePoint Security is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to spearhead their AI and Agentic Enablement practice, offering a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation. This mid-level role is perfect for engineers passionate about designing and deploying cutting-edge agentic systems, with significant autonomy across the entire delivery lifecycle. By taking ownership of harness development, internal tooling, and enablement programs, the successful candidate will directly contribute to building lasting AI capabilities within a rapidly growing, respected cybersecurity firm, making it an exceptional chance to shape the future of AI in security.
General Description
GuidePoint Security is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to join our AI and Agentic Enablement practice. This is a mid-level engineering role for practitioners with hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic systems. The role spans harness development within existing agentic platforms, internal tooling for NE regional teams, and structured enablement programs that build lasting agentic capability across the organization.
Working independently across the full delivery lifecycle, this engineer leads harness design and deployment, owns internal tooling initiatives, and drives the enablement programs that transfer agentic operating capability to regional teams.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy agentic harnesses and LLM-integrated workflows from prototype through production within existing platforms.
- Define and own performance benchmarks to evaluate reliability, accuracy, and continuous improvement of agentic pipelines.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging AI tools, models, and platforms for adoption.
- Identify, develop, and maintain AI-powered automations and tools that improve efficiency across service delivery, operations, and sales functions throughout the Northeast region.
- Lead workflow assessments to identify opportunities for agentic automation and design repeatable, scalable delivery frameworks.
- Own documentation, testing, and iteration on productized AI components and proof-of-concept builds for internal and client audiences.
- Design and deliver enablement programs that build regional teams’ capability to independently operate, maintain, and extend agentic harnesses.
- Develop training materials and lead workshops that build agentic AI literacy across functional teams, including handoff documentation and runbooks.
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- B.S. degree in computer science or relevant field and 3 years of experience or M.S degree.
- 3+ years of software development or AI/ML engineering experience.
- Demonstrated ability to design, author, and deploy agentic harnesses within existing agentic platforms.
- Working knowledge of Python and at least one additional language relevant to agentic development.
- Working understanding of large language models, prompt engineering, and API-based AI integration.
- Ability to independently scope, build, and ship agentic solutions at a mid-level engineering standard, ensuring secure development practices throughout.
- Demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), particularly AI/ML services.
- Experience with vector databases, orchestration layers, or workflow automation platforms.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns or tool-use/function-calling with LLMs.
- Experience designing and applying evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for AI systems.
- Experience designing and facilitating technical enablement programs for mixed audiences.
Travel Requirements
Physical Requirements
- Sedentary work.
- Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day.
- Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day.
About GuidePoint
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value-added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,200 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.
Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some Added Perks
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions).
- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options).
- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans.
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program.
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance.
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment.
- Pet Benefit Option.