AI for Cybersecurity · 12 convergence roles
Every AI for Cybersecurity career path, organized.
Filter by track to focus your search. Each cybersecurity role here uses AI as the working toolkit, with salary data, day-to-day responsibilities, representative tooling, and bridges to both the foundation cybersecurity area and the foundation Applied AI area.
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AI-Powered SOC Analyst
$110K medianOperations · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI-Powered SOC Analyst pairs LLM and ML tooling with SIEM telemetry to triage cybersecurity alerts, summarize log evidence, and run automated investigations at speeds that traditional Tier 1 work cannot match.
↔ Cyber: soc analyst
AI Security Operations Engineer
$165K medianOperations · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Security Operations Engineer designs and runs AI-augmented cybersecurity workflows that connect SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and identity tooling through LLM-driven enrichment and decision support.
↔ Cyber: security engineer
AI Threat Hunter
$155K medianOperations · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Threat Hunter applies machine learning and LLM-driven hypothesis tooling to run cybersecurity threat hunts at scale across endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry.
↔ Cyber: threat intelligence analyst
AI Detection Engineer
$180K medianOperations · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Detection Engineer builds ML-based detection systems that move cybersecurity teams beyond signature rules into behavioral and graph-aware detection at production scale.
↔ Cyber: security engineer
↔ AI: ml engineer
AI Security Automation Engineer
$170K medianOperations · AI Disruption 25/100
An AI Security Automation Engineer integrates LLMs into cybersecurity incident response automation, building agentic playbooks that triage, contain, and document at machine speed.
↔ Cyber: incident responder
↔ AI: ai engineer
AI Security Architect
$220K medianArchitecture · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Security Architect designs cybersecurity architectures that incorporate AI-driven detection, automated response, and LLM-augmented operations as first-class components rather than bolt-ons.
↔ Cyber: security architect
↔ AI: ai solutions architect
Security Copilot Specialist
$165K medianArchitecture · AI Disruption 25/100
A Security Copilot Specialist owns deep expertise in Microsoft Security Copilot and similar AI security platforms, scoping deployments, building plugins, and tuning prompts for cybersecurity teams.
↔ Cyber: security engineer
AI Security Tool Engineer
$195K medianArchitecture · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Security Tool Engineer builds AI-powered features inside cybersecurity products, shipping LLM-driven analyst assistants, anomaly models, and natural-language query layers as first-class capabilities.
↔ Cyber: security engineer
↔ AI: ai engineer
AI-Augmented Penetration Tester
$165K medianSpecialization · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI-Augmented Penetration Tester uses LLMs and ML tooling for offensive cybersecurity work, accelerating reconnaissance, exploit synthesis, and report writing without sacrificing methodology rigor.
↔ Cyber: penetration tester
AI for GRC Analyst
$130K medianSpecialization · AI Disruption 30/100
An AI for GRC Analyst applies LLM-driven tooling to cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance work, accelerating control mapping, evidence collection, and policy authoring.
↔ Cyber: grc analyst
AI Security Researcher
$230K medianSpecialization · AI Disruption 10/100
An AI Security Researcher conducts original research on AI applied to cybersecurity problems: detection efficacy, agentic IR systems, automated reverse engineering, and adversarial robustness in security tooling.
↔ Cyber: threat intelligence analyst
↔ AI: applied research scientist
AI Security Sales Engineer
$210K medianSales · AI Disruption 25/100
An AI Security Sales Engineer runs technical pre-sales for AI-powered cybersecurity products, scoping integrations, executing proofs of concept, and translating buyer requirements back into product feedback.
↔ Cyber: cybersecurity sales engineer
↔ AI: ai solutions engineer