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Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world-class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start.\nRole Overview\nYou will build state-of-the-art AI capabilities for Cylake's next-generation cybersecurity platform. Working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, you will develop agentic AI systems, build machine learning solutions, and train deep learning and LLM models that enable security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to threats at scale.\nYou will collaborate closely with security researchers and software engineers to develop, productize, and deploy AI-driven security solutions across SOC, SOAR, and SIEM workflows.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop state-of-the-art agentic AI systems for next-generation SOC, SOAR, and SIEM platforms.\n\nBuild and optimize large language models (LLMs) for cybersecurity and security operations use cases through post-training techniques.\n\nDevelop domain-specific evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to continuously improve model quality, accuracy, and efficiency.\n\nDesign and implement machine learning and deep learning solutions for security threat detection, including malware, phishing, anomaly detection, and attack activity classification.\n\nDevelop AI workflows and model pipelines that leverage large-scale security datasets.\n\nPartner with security researchers to improve data quality, model evaluation, and cybersecurity AI capabilities.\n\nCollaborate with software engineers to integrate AI models into scalable, production-ready security products.\n\nResearch and apply advancements in LLM architectures, AI agents, model inference, and serving optimization.\n\nRequired Experiences\n5+ years of experience applying machine learning, deep learning, or generative AI to cybersecurity or related domains, and/or a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.\n\nProven track record of applying machine learning, deep learning, or generative AI techniques and delivering high-quality models and solutions into production environments end-to-end.\n\nDeep understanding of modern AI agent architectures, agent frameworks, and implementation patterns.\n\nExperience with LLM supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning, preference optimization, and model distillation.\n\nStrong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning algorithms, model training, and evaluation on large-scale datasets.\n\nExperience with domain-specific feature engineering, data labeling, and data quality optimization.\n\nStrong proficiency in Python programming and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.\n\nFamiliarity with databases, large-scale data processing systems, and production ML pipelines.\n\nStrong communication and technical documentation skills.\n\nPreferred Experience\nExperience with LLM architecture, model pre-training, inference optimization, and model serving infrastructure.\n\nExperience with big data streaming pipelines, large-scale analytics, and distributed data processing.\n\nPrior experience applying AI to cybersecurity domains such as threat detection, anomaly detection, fraud detection, malware classification, network traffic analysis, webpage classification, or security operations.\n\nContributions to AI/ML competitions, hackathons, open-source projects, technical blogs, arXiv, or top-tier research publications.\n\nWe offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support our employees’ health, well-being, and long-term success. The expected salary range for this position is $150,000 - $250,000 per year. Within this range, individual pay is determined based on job-related factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and internal equity. Most candidates can expect an offer within the range listed above. Your recruiter will provide additional details on compensation and benefits to qualified candidates during the hiring process.\nWe’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can do their best work. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. 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