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Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, us💼 Full-time💰 $240,100–$240,100🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Define technical vision and architecture for exploitability-based security solutions, solving hard modeling problems for ServiceNow and its customers.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Strategy & Architecture)

Builds

Scalable, AI-powered security solutions and exposure analysis engines

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Modern AI/ML (LLMs, foundation models, agentic architectures, RAG), probabilistic modeling, distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, data/graph systems, Python, executive communication, AI-native development tools (coding agents)

Preferred skills

Security domain expertise (threat detection, vulnerability management, identity security), Java/Go, graph analytics

Technologies

LLMs, foundation models, agentic frameworks, RAG, vector technologies, Python, Java, Go, cloud-native platforms, APIs, microservices

Responsibilities

Set technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority, define architectural standards for scalability and reliability, mentor staff and senior engineers, champion AI-native engineering practices, establish AI safety and governance guardrails

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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