AI and Automation Engineer

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🕒 May 18

🏄 California, Colorado, +11 more states – Remote

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🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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UpGuard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🔒 Cybersecurity

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Cybersecurity • SaaS • Enterprise

UpGuard is a comprehensive third-party risk and attack surface management platform. The company provides solutions for vendor risk management, including features like automated risk assessments, security ratings, and data leak detection. UpGuard's platform integrates AI to enhance security questionnaires and provides real-time alerts, ensuring continuous monitoring and complete visibility of security postures. Its services are utilized by industries such as financial services, technology, and healthcare to secure customer data and streamline trust management process with advanced cybersecurity tools.

📋 Description

• Develop production-grade integration and automation solutions: Design and implement production-ready automation workflows that integrate cloud services, internal data sources, and LLM endpoints. • Lead the development and deployment of domain-specific LLMs: Fine-tune lightweight models on internal data from Gong, Notion, BigQuery, and other sources, then make them accessible to teams across the organisation through intuitive interfaces. • Establish best practices and patterns for AI and automation across the company: Create templates, documentation, and training materials that enable non-technical teams to build and deploy their own automation workflows confidently. • Enable widespread adoption: Run hands-on workshops, provide ongoing support, and mentor teammates so anyone at UpGuard can leverage AI and automation tools effectively. • Embed security & governance: Bake privacy, compliance, and cost controls into every workflow and model deployment, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability and data protection.

🎯 Requirements

• Python & SQL: delivered production systems that handle real data and users • Workflow orchestration: hands-on experience with automation platforms (n8n preferred. Experience with Airflow, Zapier, or other similar platforms is still valid) • AI/LLM experience: Demonstrated experience leading AI/ML projects from conception to production • Clear communicator: translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and gather business requirements • Vector/RAG expertise: experience with embeddings, vector databases, or retrieval patterns • Training mindset: created documentation, tutorials, or enabled others to use technical tools • Cloud platform experience: deployed and managed systems on GCP, AWS, or Azure

🏖️ Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: Use this for financial, physical, and mental well-being • WFH set-up allowance: To ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard • $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: To support your career development, all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance • Annual leave: PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days to give you time to recharge your batteries. • 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: Irrespective of parenting role • Personal Leave Allowance: This includes sick & carer’s leave • Fully remote working environment: While we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance • Top-spec hardware: All team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role • Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work