Senior ML Research Engineer

📍 San Francisco, CA (On-site)

🕒 Full-time

Overview

I am partnering with a pioneering company developing advanced intelligence systems to detect and remediate critical software vulnerabilities. The founding team includes senior engineers from some of the world’s leading AI and infrastructure organizations.

This is an opportunity to join a deeply technical team at the forefront of AI, security, and infrastructure, helping to redefine how organizations identify and prevent vulnerabilities at scale.

About the Role

The team is building and training AI agents capable of autonomously discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities across large enterprise and open-source codebases.

As a Senior ML Research Engineer, you’ll be a key contributor to the design and development of agentic pipelines, model evaluation frameworks, and reinforcement learning environments that power next-generation security automation.

Responsibilities

• Build state-of-the-art AI agent pipelines optimized for detecting and reasoning about complex software vulnerabilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve evaluation benchmarks that capture real-world security challenges

• Develop training procedures and RL environments to improve the adaptability and precision of coding agents

• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver a product already helping customers identify and remediate high-impact vulnerabilities within days of deployment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time experience in AI research engineering, with focus areas in ML, DL, or NLP

• Proven experience developing machine learning models at scale, from research to production impact

• Strong programming expertise in Python with hands-on experience in PyTorch

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

• Passion for AI-driven security, and curiosity for new tools and techniques in this evolving space

• Strong problem-solving ability and a commitment to building robust, scalable, and maintainable systems

Why This Opportunity

• Competitive compensation with generous equity

• Comprehensive health and dental coverage

• Lunch provided daily at the San Francisco office

• The chance to help shape a product that could redefine the future of software security

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