Agentic AI Engineer III - Cybersecurity

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues. At American Express, AI is reshaping the future of commerce and redefining the experiences our commercial customers and card members expect. Within Amex Technology, we are building platforms, products, and governance that enable agentic AI systems to operate responsibly and at scale across the enterprise. Our focus is on agentic AI development: designing intelligent, adaptive systems that can plan, reason, and act across complex workflows with appropriate levels of autonomy. These systems power autonomous workflows, decision support, and customer\-facing experiences—while meeting the high standards for security, explainability, reliability, and compliance required in financial services. We partner closely with product, design, and business teams to deliver agentic capabilities that reduce operational friction, improve decision\-making, and transform how customers interact, transact, and grow * 2\+ years of professional software engineering experience. * Some hands\-on experience building or contributing to AI\-powered features, LLM\-based applications, or applied ML systems (professional or project\-based). * Solid engineering fundamentals in at least one backend language (Python, Go, or TypeScript). * Familiarity with APIs, basic cloud concepts, and modern development practices. * Interest in agentic AI systems, autonomy, and AI\-assisted development workflows. * Willingness to learn, take feedback, and grow technical ownership over time. * Comfort working in collaborative, cross\-functiona