Principal Associate, Cyber Security

Capital One Financial

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Work type: On-site
Location: McLean, VA
Salary: $161,800–$184,600 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $173k

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 889 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Associate, Cyber Security

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Principal Associate, Cyber Security joins the Cyber organization to build, operate, and evolve tooling that maintains an up-to-date threat landscape for every asset in the enterprise portfolio. This role serves as a subject matter expert bridging threat intelligence, security engineering, and AI-driven automation. Key responsibilities include designing and maintaining a multi-agent AI profiling platform involving agent logic, prompt pipelines, and confidence scoring; managing queryable records of historical threat profiles; and developing portal and API capabilities for asset search and compliance gap exports. The ideal candidate possesses engineering depth to build production-quality tools and fluency in AI/ML workflows like prompt engineering and multi-agent orchestration. Required skills include experience with threat intelligence, application security, cloud security, and frameworks such as NIST CSF or MITRE ATT&CK, alongside familiarity with tools like Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub.

Skills

AI Prompt Engineering Multi-agent Systems Threat Intelligence Cloud Security Application Security Splunk Crowdstrike Qualys AWS Security Hub NIST CSF CMMC FedRAMP

What you'll do

Design, build, and maintain a multi-agent AI profiling platform including agent logic and prompt pipelines.
Manage the production of accurate threat profiles for all assets in the enterprise portfolio.
Maintain a persistent, queryable record of historical threat profiles while ensuring data integrity and compliance.
Develop portal and API capabilities to provide asset search, delta views, and system integrations.
Monitor operational health and coverage commitments to ensure data freshness before SLA breaches.
Engineer production-quality tools and code for security teams at an enterprise scale.
Orchestrate AI agent workflows including prompt engineering and confidence-based quality assurance gating.

What we're looking for

At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology.
At least 2 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities.
Experience designing and operating AI/ML pipelines or multi-agent systems in a security context (preferred).
Experience with application security, cloud security, and threat intelligence engineering (preferred).
Experience with cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, FedRAMP, etc. (preferred).
Experience working in multi-cloud environments and using tools like Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub (preferred).
Experience developing cybersecurity metrics, dashboards, and reporting to stakeholders (preferred).
Bachelor's degree.

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