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Staff Security ML Researcher

Sunnyvale, California - HQ💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop machine learning-driven approaches for threat detection, risk assessment, and security analytics to identify threats and model attacker behavior across complex enterprise environments.

Role type

Staff Security ML Researcher (hands-on IC)

Builds

Intelligent models, actionable insights, and customer-facing capabilities for breach containment and cyber risk reduction.

Domain

Cybersecurity + Machine Learning + Graph Analytics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, machine learning frameworks (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch), statistical modeling, anomaly detection, behavioral profiling, clustering, classification, forecasting, graph-based analysis, SQL, model evaluation, feature engineering, handling imbalanced datasets

Preferred skills

graph neural networks, link prediction, cloud ML productionization (AWS, Kubernetes), risk-scoring systems, predictive analytics

Technologies

Neo4j, graph databases, AWS, Kubernetes, MITRE ATT&CK

Responsibilities

Design and deploy ML models for threat detection and risk prediction; analyze large-scale security datasets to identify attacker behaviors; develop threat scoring and risk assessment models; design and maintain scalable data pipelines for model training; partner with engineers to productionize models; collaborate with product teams to embed ML insights into customer experiences; explore emerging techniques in graph analytics and AI-driven threat detection.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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