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Applied AI Engineer II

Tanium
Durham, NC Full Time
POSTED ON 9/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/21/2025
The Basics

As an 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.

What You’ll Do

  • 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

We’re looking for someone with

  • 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
About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000 - $295,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

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Salary : $100,000 - $295,000

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