Applied AI Development Manager - TrendAI Vision One Platform

TrendAI™, the global AI security leader and enterprise business unit of Trend Micro, empowers organizations with full AI visibility and consolidated security that inspires confidence, drives innovation, and eliminates risk.

At TrendAI™, we’re always seeking exceptional talent; people who want to collaborate with the best and push boundaries together. Here, your work goes beyond building a career. You will help protect what matters and play a vital role in shaping a safer, more trustworthy AI-powered future.

AI Fearlessly.

Position Summary

We're looking for a deeply technical engineering leader to drive the development of high-quality applications within the Vision One platform at TrendAI. This role is first and foremost for someone who lives and breathes software, architecture, and security — someone who can earn the trust of senior engineers through technical credibility, not just seniority.

You'll lead a team of developers, shaping both the technical direction and the people behind it. You'll remove blockers, raise the bar on quality, and ensure the team ships work that matters to customers. If you love hard technical problems, care deeply about security, and want to do it all in the context of building next-generation cybersecurity products, we want to talk to you.

In your technical leadership capacity, you will:

• Drive architectural decisions for cloud-native, distributed systems — microservices, event-driven systems, REST APIs — with a security-first mindset

• Stay hands-on: review code, prototype solutions, and contribute directly when needed

• Own and enforce security practices across the SDLC, including threat modeling, secure coding standards, and vulnerability management

• Lead the team's adoption of AI-augmented software development lifecycle (AI-SDLC), including spec-driven development using agentic AI.

• Bring hands-on knowledge of AI/ML technologies relevant to the platform: model fine-tuning and prompt engineering, AI agents and agentic workflows, guardrails and safety mechanisms, AI security risks (prompt injection, model poisoning, data leakage), and emerging standards like MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• Stay current with the threat landscape and competitive market in cybersecurity, translating that knowledge into product and technical decisions

• Champion continuous improvement through experimentation, retrospectives, and cross-team knowledge sharing

In your product ownership capacity, you will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional and non-functional requirements, translating them into clear, actionable specs for your team

• Lead project planning and execution, ensuring the team has direction, resources, and clear priorities to deliver high-quality work on time

• Hold ownership of communications and coordination for your areas of Vision One, keeping customer experience at the center of every decision

In your people management capacity, you will:

• Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports and support their career growth through mentorship and honest feedback

• Recruit for your teams: from job descriptions to interviews to closing and onboarding

• Run bi-annual talent reviews and annual salary assessments, including the conversations that come with them

• Support team members with HR, IT, and administrative issues as needed

Qualifications

Required:

• 7+ years of software development experience, with strong proficiency in one or more of: Java, Golang, Python, JavaScript

• 5+ years in cloud-native application development, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with building and deploying with containers and container orchestration technology such as Kubernetes

• Solid experience with microservice architectures, REST API design, and event-driven systems

• Passion for cybersecurity

• Experience or strong familiarity with AI agents, agentic frameworks, and protocols such as MCP and A2A

• Proven ability to lead and grow engineering teams

• Excellent communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of AI security risks: prompt injection, adversarial inputs, data privacy, model integrity

• Experience with LLM guardrails, safety layers, or responsible AI practices

• Familiarity with AI/ML development: model training, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or building AI-powered features in production systems

• Background in threat intelligence, malware analysis, or security research

What We Offer You:

You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. TrendAI provides benefit options for you and your family.

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short & Long Term Disability .

• Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave

• Mental Health Wellness Program

• Adoption Assistance

• Wellness Incentive

• Pet Insurance

• 401(k) with company match

• Paid Time Off

• 14 Annual Holidays

• Tuition Assistance

We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.

Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.

At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.