CareerPlan

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, usFull-time$201k–$352k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-11

Core

Designing and building a zero-to-one AI-powered security harness with a novel exploitability engine to rank security work by realistic attacker entry points rather than raw severity.

Role type

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Security & Risk)

Builds

Scalable, production-quality security solutions for ServiceNow and its customers

Domain

Cybersecurity, Risk Engineering, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Predictive Modeling, Graph ML, Security Analytics, Anomaly Detection, Risk Scoring, LLMs/Agentic AI, MLOps, Probabilistic Modeling, Graph Analytics, Calibration and Evaluation

Preferred skills

Attack-path analysis, Vulnerability management, Identity security, Threat intelligence, AI safety, AI governance, AI evaluation

Technologies

Python, Java, Go, TypeScript, Cloud-native technologies, Distributed systems, APIs, Databases, Vector search, RAG, Embeddings

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end architecture of the exploitability engine from ingestion to validation; Drive technical direction for probabilistic ranking cores and calibration loops; Mentor senior engineers and lead by influence; Partner with product and SecOps to translate customer problems into architecture; Establish AI safety and governance guardrails for agentic systems

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with strategic leadership