AI Engineering Team Lead
Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time. In a rapidly evolving, perimeter-less world, Armis ensures that organizations continuously see, protect and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. Armis secures Fortune 100, 200 and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities to help keep critical infrastructure, economies and society stay safe and secure 24/7.
Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.
Armis Centrix RMS is a new product being built from scratch inside Armis (by ServiceNow). We're hiring the engineering leader who will own its AI core.
Small senior team, greenfield architecture and real production environments from day one. You'll be one of the founding technical leaders - writing code, shaping the architecture, and growing the team as the product scales.
What You'll Do
Agent Architecture & Engineering
Design and build the AI systems at the center of the product: researcher agents, deterministic runners, multi-agent orchestration across thousands of targets and hundreds of sites.
Own the full agent stack - LLM selection and behavior, RAG pipelines, tool use, memory, evaluation, and observability. Make architectural decisions that will define how the product works for years.
Drive adoption of the modern agent ecosystem: LangGraph, MCP, semantic tool discovery, hybrid edge/cloud workflows, A2A patterns. Keep pushing the frontier.
Safety & Reliability
Design for progressive autonomy: pre-checks, fault tolerance, rollback, and full audit trails. In our customers' environments - critical infrastructure, enterprise security - a wrong action has real consequences.
Build the evaluation and observability pipelines that make autonomous agent behavior trustworthy and debuggable in production.
Partner with Security and DevOps on agent execution boundaries, especially across on-prem ↔ cloud data flows.
Technical Leadership
Spend most of your time in the codebase. Set the technical bar by example - architecture, code quality, and engineering judgment.
Establish standards for testing, evaluation, and safe deployment of AI systems. Build the practices that scale with the team.
Work directly with the PM and enterprise design partners to shape the roadmap. Your decisions will drive the product, not just execute it.
Team
Start with a small senior group, grow it deliberately. Hire well, mentor, and shape the engineering culture of a startup inside a public company.
What We Expect
Must have
- 8+ years engineering experience with production systems, including time leading or tech-leading a team.
- Experience building a team from the ground up - first hires, culture, hiring bar.
- Shipped AI/LLM products to production - not just demos or POCs.
- Strong Python and/or TypeScript.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs, agent frameworks (LangGraph, Mastra, AWS Strands, Vercel AI SDK, or similar), prompt engineering, RAG, and model behavior in production.
- Distributed systems fundamentals: workflow orchestration, fault-tolerant architectures, async patterns.
- Cloud and self-hosted model deployment (Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama).
- Hands-on leadership - you write code, review PRs, set the bar. You also know when to step back.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and the pace of a zero-to-one build.
Nice to have
- Background in network security, asset discovery, or traffic analysis
- Familiarity with OT/ICS network protocols (Modbus, S7comm, PROFINET, DNP3)
- Multi-agent architectures in production (A2A, agent swarms).
- Memory libraries (Mem0, LangMem, MemGPT).
- LLM evaluation frameworks (LangSmith, Bedrock Evaluations).
- Vector stores (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma), PostgreSQL/MongoDB.
- Background in cybersecurity or critical infrastructure.
- IaC (CDK, Terraform).
The choices you make in your career journey matter. You want to do interesting work in an important field while also having time to live your life, which is why we place so much value in your life-work balance. Armis sets you up for success with comprehensive health benefits, discretionary time off, paid holidays including monthly me days, and a highly inclusive and diverse workplace. Put your unique experiences and perspective to work in an environment where they will enable you to thrive, grow, and live your life with integrity.
Armis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We never discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected (or not) status. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to submit satisfactory proof of identity and legal authorization.
