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