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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, us💼 Full-time💰 $201,300–$201,300🗓 2026-09-12 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and building a novel exploitability engine for security risk analysis that ranks security work by realistic attacker entry points rather than raw severity.

Role type

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Security AI)

Builds

End-to-end architecture of a probabilistic ranking core, evidence ingestion, entity resolution, and validation loops for security harness.

Domain

Cybersecurity / AI / Probabilistic Modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Architecture design, probabilistic modeling, graph analytics, LLM systems, agentic workflows, distributed systems, Python/Java/Go/TypeScript

Preferred skills

Attack-path analysis, vulnerability management, AI safety/governance, AI evaluation, AI-assisted development tools

Technologies

Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, LLMs, RAG, vector search, graph systems, cloud-native technologies

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture of the exploitability engine, drive technical direction for zero-to-one production systems, mentor senior engineers, partner with product and security teams, establish AI safety guardrails.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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