$150,000–$180,000
Agentic AI Security Consultant
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$138,000–$200,000annualizedIL
Build and deploy AI agents and reusable tooling that automate and augment customer cyber defense workflows, including alert triage, threat hunting, investigation, and reporting.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$138K–$200KBelow the median
Median $188K
This job$138K–$200KTypical senior FDE payMiddle 50% of 1,748 postings$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales (not covered)
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations
Travel Up to 25%
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- Both
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Who you build for: Both9%
- Company stage: Public33%
- Company size: About 5,000+ people38%
- Individual contributor or manager: Individual contributor50%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
The job description from Google
About the job
Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $138000 - $200000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Identify challenges in customer Cyber Defense Centers and formulate strategies for improvement, plan implementation of improvements, and execute/oversee plans to completion, and ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.
- Provide expertise for AI and Agentic technologies that assist in Cyber Defense Center Processes and advise on AI and Agentic technologies relied upon by the client CDC, CSIRT, and SOC.
- Design, build, and maintain AI agents and reusable skills that automate and augment cyber defense workflows (alert triage, threat hunting, investigation, detection authoring, reporting, etc).
- Develop AI tooling and internal frameworks, prompt pipelines, tool/function integrations, evaluation harnesses, and orchestration that consultants can deploy across engagements.
- Integrate agents with security data sources and platforms (SIEM, SOAR, EDR, threat intelligence feeds, ticketing) via API, MCP and other connectors.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in Python.
- Experience integrating systems via REST APIs and working with cloud platforms.
- Experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, function/tool calling, RAG, or agent frameworks.
- Experience with Generative AI, Generative AI Agent, Model Context Protocol, API Development, and Workflow Automation, and experience in cybersecurity in SOC or incident response roles.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience in cybersecurity, SOC operations, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, or similar capability.
- Experience building multi-step or multi-agent systems and designing reusable agent skills/tools.
- Experience with AI evaluation, observability, and guardrails for production systems and familiarity with Google Cloud and its AI/ML services.
- Consulting or client-facing delivery experience, with the ability to work across concurrent engagements.
- Familiarity with security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, EDR) and common security data formats.
- Ability to manage sensitive data responsibly and communicate technical work to non-AI specialists.
About Google
Builds global consumer, ads, cloud, developer and AI platforms spanning Search, YouTube, Android, Workspace and Gemini.
Public · 5000+ people
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