Associate Director, AI Software Security Engineer
RTX · mckinney, TX
$157,200–$298,800from the description
Jul 14, 2026
mckinney, TX
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 12+ years · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,221 (middle half $107,984–$167,709). 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 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Associate Director – AI Software Security Engineer' is a management-flavored title, but the JD emphasizes hands-on development, building pipelines, and deploying models rather than people management or budget ownership. Classified as Software Developers (15-1252) with Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) as the runner-up given the ambiguity.
The JD lists multiple locations: McKinney, TX (primary address in the posting), Tucson, AZ, and Tewksbury, MA. The CBSA reflects the primary listed address (McKinney, TX → Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro).
The degree requirement states 'STEM degree' — mapped to Bachelors as the minimum implied level; no explicit degree level is stated, but 12 years of experience alongside a degree requirement is standard for this type of role.
AWS, Azure, and GCP are all explicitly listed together as required ('Hands-on experience across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)') — emitted as separate required skills since all three are demanded simultaneously, not as alternatives. Alternatives are populated to reflect that any one cloud platform could substitute in a different context, but the JD requires all three.
The TS/SCI clearance is listed under required qualifications as something to 'obtain and maintain after day 1,' but the preferred section also lists an 'Active' clearance as a preference — meaning an active clearance is preferred but the hard gate is the ability to obtain one.
'Machine learning frameworks' is kept as a skill because the JD says 'modern machine learning frameworks' without naming a specific one (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow); no canonical single tool can be substituted.
The salary range ($157,200–$298,800/year) is stated as covering 'all experience levels' — the wide band reflects the seniority ambiguity in the role.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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