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Applied AI Engineer II

Tanium is hiring an Applied AI Engineer II in Addison and Durham, United States. It pays $154k-$236k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Tanium.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this AI engineer role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include PyTorch, TensorFlow and AI agents.
  • Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
  • Level lists 63 other open roles at Tanium.
  • The role was posted within the past week.

AI in this role

PyTorchTensorFlow
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Summary/Objectives

As a Tanium Applied AI Engineer II, you will be tasked with building and maintaining best-of-breed products as part of a small and nimble development team. Tanium focuses on a strong customer engagement model and feedback process to ensure our products are designed the right way from the beginning. When new products ideas are identified, our software engineers are responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying the products from the ground up, while continuously iterating with product management and customers for feedback and input.

Essential Job Functions

  • Design, develop, and deploy AI Agents and machine learning models to solve complex business problems
  • Create and maintain backend systems for LLMs and AI Agents, ensuring high performance and scalability
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into existing systems and workflows
  • Optimize and fine-tune models and AI Agents for performance, accuracy, and efficiency
  • Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for AI model and AI Agent deployment
  • Monitor and troubleshoot AI systems in production, ensuring reliability and robustness
  • Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, AI Agents, and related technologies

Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications

Education

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • CS Degree preferred

Experience

  • 3+ years of professional experience
  • Proven experience as an AI Developer, AI Engineer, or similar role
  • Expert knowledge of at least one of Golang (preferred), Python or Java and experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)
  • Experience with LLMs, AI Agents, and natural language processing (NLP) techniques
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies

Other

  • Demonstrates sound judgment for balancing between rapid development, and long-term code maintainability and supportability
  • Communicates effectively, both technically and non-technically, as well as in written and oral forms
  • Believes in the power of and the need for writing automated tests as part of development
  • Skilled debugger who can put out fires under pressure when things go wrong in production environments
  • Has knowledge of a variety of modern software frameworks (server side & browser side) and the versatility to learn new tools
  • Detail-oriented and passionate for creating an awesome user experience

Core Competencies

Tanium Competencies:

  • Demonstrates initiative and motivation
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Team player
  • Person of high ethics and integrity
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment

Security & Privacy Roles & Responsibilities

All roles at Tanium have access to Tanium Confidential Information, therefore, Tanium assigns a universal Position Risk Designation to all roles to hold everyone to the highest possible standard. All roles at Tanium are subject to the following requirements:

  • Protection of Tanium information and other assets
  • Compliance with Tanium policies and terms of applicable agreements with Tanium

Additional privacy and security-specific duties, skills and qualifications relevant to the role, if any:

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What you’ll get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $154,000 to $236,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well-being benefits.

Tanium is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected Veteran status, or other legally protected categories. If you require a reasonable accommodation in searching for a job opening, completing an application, interviewing, or completing any pre-employment testing or requirements, please contact accommodations@tanium.com. For more information refer to the “Know Your Rights” poster which is available here - https://www.eeoc.gov/poster.

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How we rate this

Applied AI Engineer II at Tanium rates 21 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

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$154k
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Questions you could be asked

  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
  3. What are the limits of PyTorch that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
  4. What's a project where you used TensorFlow hands-on?

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