Sobre este puesto de Staff Software Engineer - Applied AI en Trend Micro
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. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.
AI Fearlessly.
Location: This is a hybrid role based in our Austin, TX office with an expectation of 3 days onsite per week.
Position Summary:
Do you love creating elegant solutions to highly complex challenges? Do you instinctively see the importance in every detail? We are looking for Applied AI Engineers to help define how engineers build with AI across our organization.
In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of Generative AI and platform engineering, designing the tools, workflows, and standards that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, and scale AI-powered applications. Your work will directly shape how teams adopt and use AI making it more accessible, reliable, and impactful.
You’ll join a lean, high-impact team where collaboration is key. We work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security partners to ensure the solutions we build are scalable, secure, and solve real-world problems.
What You'll Do:
Define the AI Development Lifecycle: Establish and evolve the end-to-end AI development lifecycle, including guardrails, context management, and engineering standards that enable responsible and efficient AI adoption.
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. This includes reusable tooling, templates, and patterns that reduce friction and accelerate delivery.
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.
Think Like a Product Owner: Treat internal platforms and AI capabilities as products. Continuously iterate based on developer feedback, usability, and adoption metrics.
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.
What You Bring:
5+ years of software development experience
Strong programming skills and engineering fundamentals
Experience with modern software delivery practices (CI/CD, cloud environments, etc.)
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:
Familiarity or interest in AI/ML systems, particularly LLM-based applications
Experience with workflow frameworks such as Temporal.io
Experience with golang & python
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
Work on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and developer experience
TrendAI is a leader in AI security. 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. Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform. 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. You will help transform cutting-edge research into real-world defense capabilities, protecting millions of users in the generative-AI agent era and enabling enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats.
What We Offer You:
You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. 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
Adoption Assistance
Wellness Incentive
Pet Insurance
401(k) with company match
Paid Time Off
14 Annual Holidays
Tuition Assistance
Employee Resource Groups
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.
Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.
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At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
