Principal Agentic AI Security Engineer at AbbVie
North Chicago, IL
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Jul 9, 2026
North Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on designing and building autonomous AI agent systems for cybersecurity purposes — covering threat detection, investigation, vulnerability analysis, and adversarial robustness. The work spans original research, production code, and technical policy, including authoring security guidance and position papers on emerging AI threats. Best suited to someone with deep hands-on experience in both security engineering and applied AI/ML development.
Senior level · 9+ years · National · Bachelor's required · 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
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095).
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 (6)
No work location is specified in the posting; the role is at AbbVie (North Chicago, IL HQ) but no city or CBSA is stated, so metro is left blank.
The role sits at the intersection of security engineering and software development — it requires shipping production AI/security systems (pointing toward 15-1252) but is framed around cybersecurity maturity, security operations, and security policy (pointing toward 15-1212). 15-1212 was chosen as primary because the explicit program ownership, policy authorship, and security-domain depth dominate the scope; 15-1252 is the close runner-up.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's Degree with 9 years' experience; Master's with 8; PhD with 4' — a Bachelor's is the minimum formal degree gate, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors. Total years minimum is set to 9 (the Bachelor's path, which is the lowest bar).
Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Aider, or similar) are listed under Required with an 'or similar' qualifier — treated as a single hard-gate skill with named alternatives.
Security clearance is listed under Preferred as 'eligibility (not required)' — this is explicitly not a gate, so the clearance requirement is None.
Remote status is not stated; defaulting to false (on-site/unspecified).
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