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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

NYC💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-24 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define and build Adaptive's ML capabilities to detect, classify, and respond to AI-powered cybersecurity threats in real time using LLMs and ML models.

Role type

Founding Machine Learning Engineer (building ML function from scratch)

Builds

Production ML systems for cybersecurity threat detection and response

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Production ML system design, cloud ML infrastructure, data pipeline engineering, model evaluation methodology, software engineering fundamentals, team leadership

Preferred skills

Early-stage startup ML function experience, mentoring engineers

Technologies

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten

Responsibilities

Define ML strategy and build vs buy decisions; Design and build end-to-end production ML systems; Establish model evaluation and regression detection; Own data strategy and feedback loops; Integrate ML into product codebase; Build and lead the ML team

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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