Summary/Objectives

As a Tanium Applied AI Engineer II, you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified, our software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

Essential Job Functions

Design, develop, and deploy AI Agents and machine learning models to solve complex business problems
Create and maintain backend systems for LLMs and AI Agents, ensuring high performance and scalability
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows
Optimize and fine-tune models and AI Agents for performance, accuracy, and efficiency
Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI model and AI Agent deployment
Monitor and troubleshoot AI systems in production, ensuring reliability and robustness
Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, AI Agents, and related technologies

Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
CS Degree preferred

Experience

3+ years of professional experience
Proven experience as an AI Developer, AI Engineer, or similar role
Expert knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), Python or Java and experience with Kubernetes
Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
Experience with LLMs, AI Agents, and natural language processing (NLP) techniques
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies

Other

Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, and long-term code maintainability and supportability
Communicates effectively, both technically and non-technically, as well as in written and oral forms
Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools
Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience

Core Competencies

Tanium Competencies:

Demonstrates initiative and motivation
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Team player
Person of high ethics and integrity
Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Security & Privacy Roles & Responsibilities

All roles at Tanium have access to Tanium Confidential Information, therefore, Tanium assigns a universal Position Risk Designation to all roles to hold everyone to the highest possible standard. All roles at Tanium are subject to the following requirements:

Protection of Tanium information and other assets
Compliance with Tanium policies and terms of applicable agreements with Tanium

Additional privacy and security-specific duties, skills and qualifications relevant to the role, if any:

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.