Applied AI Development Manager - TrendAI Vision One Platform
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About the Role
Trend Micro is seeking a deeply technical engineering leader to drive development of high-quality applications within the Vision One platform.
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Responsibilities
- Drive architectural decisions for cloud native, distributed systems — microservices, event driven systems, REST APIs — with a security first mindset.
- Stay hands on: review code, prototype solutions, and contribute directly when needed.
- Own and enforce security practices across the SDLC, including threat modeling, secure coding standards, and vulnerability management.
- Lead the team's adoption of AI augmented software development lifecycle (AI SDLC), including spec driven development using agentic AI.
- Bring hands on knowledge of AI/ML technologies relevant to the platform: model fine tuning, prompt engineering, AI agents, guardrails, and AI security risks.
- Stay current with the threat landscape and competitive market in cybersecurity, translating that knowledge into product and technical decisions.
- Champion continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospectives, and cross team knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional and non functional requirements, translating them into clear, actionable specs for your team.
- Lead project planning and execution, ensuring the team has direction, resources, and clear priorities.
- Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports and support their career growth through mentorship and honest feedback.
- Recruit for your teams: from job descriptions to interviews to closing and onboarding.
- Run bi annual talent reviews and annual salary assessments.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software development experience with strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Golang, Python, JavaScript.
- 5+ years in cloud native application development, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with building and deploying with containers and container orchestration technology such as Kubernetes.
- Solid experience with microservice architectures, REST API design, and event driven systems.
- Passion for cybersecurity.
- Experience or strong familiarity with AI agents, agentic frameworks, and protocols such as MCP and A2A.
- Proven ability to lead and grow engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills across technical and non technical audiences.
- Knowledge of AI security risks: prompt injection, adversarial inputs, data privacy, model integrity (nice to have).
- Experience with LLM guardrails, safety layers, or responsible AI practices (nice to have).
- Familiarity with AI/ML development: model training, fine tuning, prompt engineering, or building AI powered features in production systems (nice to have).
- Background in threat intelligence, malware analysis, or security research (nice to have).
Full Job Posting
Position Summary
- We're looking for a deeply technical engineering leader to drive the development of high quality applications within the Vision One platform at Trend AI.
- You'll lead a team of developers, shaping both the technical direction and the people behind it.
In your technical leadership capacity, you will:
- Drive architectural decisions for cloud native, distributed systems — microservices, event driven systems, REST APIs — with a security first mindset.
- Stay hands on: review code, prototype solutions, and contribute directly when needed.
- Own and enforce security practices across the SDLC, including threat modeling, secure coding standards, and vulnerability management.
- Lead the team's adoption of AI augmented software development lifecycle (AI SDLC), including spec driven development using agentic AI.
- Bring hands on knowledge of AI/ML technologies relevant to the platform: model fine tuning and prompt engineering, AI agents and agentic workflows, guardrails and safety mechanisms, AI security risks, and emerging standards like MCP.
- Stay current with the threat landscape and competitive market in cybersecurity, translating that knowledge into product and technical decisions.
- Champion continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospectives, and cross team knowledge sharing.
In your product ownership capacity, you will:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional and non functional requirements, translating them into clear, actionable specs for your team.
- Lead project planning and execution, ensuring the team has direction, resources, and clear priorities to deliver high quality work on time.
- Hold ownership of communications and coordination for your areas of Vision One, keeping customer experience at the center of every decision.
In your people management capacity, you will:
- Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports and support their career growth through mentorship and honest feedback.
- Recruit for your teams: from job descriptions to interviews to closing and onboarding.
- Run bi annual talent reviews and annual salary assessments, including the conversations that come with them.
- Support team members with HR, IT, and administrative issues as needed.
Qualifications
- Required: 7+ years of software development experience, with strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Golang, Python, JavaScript.
- Required: 5+ years in cloud native application development, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Required: Experience with building and deploying with containers and container orchestration technology such as Kubernetes.
- Required: Solid experience with microservice architectures, REST API design, and event driven systems.
- Required: Passion for cybersecurity.
- Required: Experience or strong familiarity with AI agents, agentic frameworks, and protocols such as MCP and A2A.
- Required: Proven ability to lead and grow engineering teams.
- Required: Excellent communication skills across technical and non technical audiences.
- Nice to have: Knowledge of AI security risks: prompt injection, adversarial inputs, data privacy, model integrity.
- Nice to have: Experience with LLM guardrails, safety layers, or responsible AI practices.
- Nice to have: Familiarity with AI/ML development: model training, fine tuning, prompt engineering, or building AI powered features in production systems.
- Nice to have: Background in threat intelligence, malware analysis, or security research.
What We Offer You
- 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.
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