GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
General Description
GuidePoint Security is seeking an Associate Applied AI Engineer to join our growing AI and Agentic Enablement practice. This is an junior-level engineering role for candidates who build AI and agentic systems, both to improve how we operate internally and to support the development of AI-powered offerings we deliver to clients. You will support senior engineers and practice leads, contributing to the design, development, and deployment of agentic workflows and AI tooling. This role spans internal automation, client-adjacent solution development, cross-team enablement, and ongoing experimentation with emerging AI technologies.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the authoring and deployment of agentic harnesses within existing agentic platforms
- Assist in prototyping and iterating on agentic harnesses and LLM-integrated workflows
- Define and implement benchmarks to evaluate the performance, reliability, and accuracy of agentic pipelines and workflows, supporting continuous improvement and quality assurance
- Research and evaluate emerging AI tools, models, and platforms, and surface relevant findings to the team
- Support the identification and development of AI-powered automations that improve efficiency across service delivery, operations, and sales functions
- Participate in workflow assessments to understand current-state processes and identify opportunities for agentic automation
- Contribute to internal tools, integrations, and AI-assisted workflows in active use across the Northeast region
- Serve as a hands-on resource for regional teams, building their capability to independently operate and maintain agentic harnesses
- Other duties as assigned
Required Experience:
- High school diploma and 1 year of relevant experience
- Working knowledge of Python and the ability to author, configure, and iterate on agentic harnesses within existing agentic platforms
- Foundational understanding of large language models, prompt engineering, and API-based AI integration
- Ability to read, write, and debug code independently at a junior level
- Demonstrated ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Demonstrated engagement with agentic AI systems and automation through coursework, projects, or self-directed learning
Preferred Experience: