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# Senior Security Engineer in Herndon

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $131,300.0 - $237,350.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Integrated Development Environments, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Api Management
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-security-engineer-herndon-31518708

## About the Role

* 8+ years of professional experience in security engineering, secure software development, or infrastructure security.

## Description

The work includes guiding and reviewing build integrity and supply chain review to threat modeling our own tooling. If you have ever looked at a supply chain & development environment and immediately started listing the ways you would secure it, this is the job. You will be the person the team trusts to tell them when something is a real risk and when it is just noise, As an AI Security Integration Engineer on our team, you will bridge the gap between traditional security infrastructure and modern programmatic defense. You will guide the secure development and evolution of software vulnerability tooling. Your primary focus will be working with the development team to maintainmaintaining the tool security posture utilizing continuous ATO. review workflows and pipelines by leveraging Python, assessing robust API integrations, maintained exploring AI/LLM orchestration to rapidly scale threat detection and response capabilities. Support ATO and continuous vuln management.


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