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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Defensive Agent

US, Remote🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $211,000–$211,000🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and operate production ML/LLM pipelines for autonomous defensive agents that proactively find and fix exploitable attack vectors in cloud environments.

Role type

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Defensive Agent / Production ML)

Builds

Production-ready autonomous pentesting agents and model-serving infrastructure for NodeZero platform

Domain

Cybersecurity / Cloud Security / Autonomous Agents

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, ML pipelines (training/fine-tuning), model serving infrastructure, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), SQL, data pipelines, observability, cost/latency optimization

Preferred skills

LLM/agentic system operationalization, post-training (SFT/distillation/RL), model gateways/multi-provider routing, GPU inference optimization, graph databases (Neo4j), regulated environment deployment

Technologies

vLLM, TGI, Bedrock, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Kubernetes, Docker

Responsibilities

Build training and post-training pipelines; build inference and serving layer with routing and caching; own release path for model artifacts; build monitoring for drift and quality; build data/context pipelines for inference; optimize cost and latency; develop ETL/GraphQL features for product integration

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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