CareerPlan

Lead Machine Learning Engineer , AI Defense (Hybrid)

Milpitas, California, USFull-time$216k–$281k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Technical leader shaping product architecture and team culture for AI Defense, securing enterprise AI platforms, autonomous agents, and foundation models.

Role type

Senior IC machine learning engineer (AI security) with technical leadership

Builds

Scalable, high-performance platform services that detect, validate, and stop threats to AI applications and agents in real time

Domain

Cybersecurity + Generative AI / Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Architecting large-scale distributed systems, cloud-native backend development, LLM inference optimization, secure deployment strategies, technical leadership, hands-on design and implementation

Preferred skills

AI/ML infrastructure, security products, SaaS and hybrid enterprise deployments

Technologies

Cloud-native infrastructure, LLM inference frameworks, distributed systems

Responsibilities

Define and drive architecture of scalable platform services for AI security, lead design and implementation of complex technical challenges, shape LLM inference and model-hosting strategy, partner with Product and Ops to deploy production-grade features, mentor team members and communicate strategy to senior leadership

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities