CareerPlan

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Advanced Threat Protection)

Office - USA - CA - HeadquartersFull-time$163k–$264k2026-11-11 → 2026-11-12
Hybrid · United StatesVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Architect and deliver next-generation AI-driven cloud security solutions, specifically focusing on agentic systems, LLMs, and SLMs for threat protection.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Advanced Threat Protection)

Builds

Agentic systems, LLMs, SLMs, and Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) offerings

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Security / AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Go, Java, Apache Spark, SQL, Google Cloud (Dataproc, GKE), LLM/SLM fine-tuning, GPU profiling/debugging, CUDA, RAG, vector storage

Preferred skills

Cybersecurity domain knowledge, L3–L7 networking protocols, high-volume telemetry handling

Technologies

LLMs, SLMs, Apache Spark, BigQuery, Google Cloud, CUDA

Responsibilities

Architect ML/GenAI-powered agents with dynamic planning and multi-agent collaboration; Build, evaluate, and fine-tune LLMs and SLMs; Optimize model training and inference on GPU clusters; Architect scalable data preprocessing pipelines; Drive end-to-end engineering from prototype to production; Evaluate state-of-the-art agent frameworks and model serving engines

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with technical leadership