Adaptive Security
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
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About this role
Founding ML Engineer at an AI cybersecurity startup backed by NVIDIA and OpenAI. Build production ML systems from scratch to detect and classify AI-powered threats like deepfakes and voice scams, establish infrastructure and strategy, and scale a new ML function.
What you'll do
- Define ML strategy and architecture across the company's cybersecurity products
- Design and build end-to-end production ML systems including data pipelines, training, evaluation, and inference serving
- Establish evaluation methodology and frameworks to measure model quality and prevent regressions
- Develop data strategy including labeling, feedback loops, and continuous model improvement
- Integrate ML systems into products and write production-quality code alongside engineers
- Build and lead the ML team as the function grows
What they're looking for
- Production ML systems design and implementation
- Cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, or similar)
- Python, Java, or TypeScript programming
- ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark)
- Data pipeline and infrastructure development
- Adversarial ML and security applications
- Team leadership and mentoring
- Full-stack system design
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation and meaningful equity
- Fully covered medical plans
- 401k through Vestwell
- Unlimited PTO with guaranteed winter break
- Free daily lunch from local restaurants
- Meal and transportation expenses covered for late nights
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