Cybersecurity Principal | AI Security and Cyber Fraud Analytics (Remote) at Home Depot
Atlanta, GA
$170,000–$240,000from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role at The Home Depot's Cybersecurity organization focuses on securing AI and agentic systems — building fraud detection and analytics models, detecting adversarial AI threats such as deepfakes and voice cloning, and operationalizing AI governance frameworks. The position suits a senior security engineer with deep hands-on experience in both AI/ML security and enterprise security controls, working across architecture, operations, and governance teams.
Senior level · 10+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $134,382 (middle half $104,315–$168,301). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting title is 'Principal Engineer' but the role reports to a Distinguished Engineer or Sr. Director with 0 direct reports and 10 years minimum experience — scope is consistent with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true org-wide Principal.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role blends Information Security (AI threat detection, security controls, governance frameworks) with Data Science (fraud analytics models, NLP embeddings, graph learning). Primary day-to-day work leans toward security analysis and framework implementation, so 15-1212 was chosen over 15-2051.
Location is inferred as Atlanta, GA (The Home Depot's headquarters); no explicit city is stated in the posting.
The degree requirement states 'bachelor's degree or equivalent degree' with no explicit 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so Bachelors is recorded as the minimum.
All skills are drawn from the Qualifications/Knowledge section, which functions as the hard-requirements block for this posting.
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