Senior AI/ML Engineer
TENEX.AI · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time
Job Responsibilities
- Lead and own the architecture and delivery of technical components of complex projects.
- Communicate effectively to align on requirements, execute on high-quality code, and collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
- Design & build the AI layer that powers autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows.
- Develop and productionize large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines that operate on billions of security events.
- Own evaluation & reliability from prompt libraries and fine-tuning to red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallback strategies.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives, partnering with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate real-world attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections.
- Experiment with retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models (text + logs + graphs) to keep defenders decisively ahead.
- Mentor junior engineers, foster engineering best practices, and contribute to architectural design reviews.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in software development, engineering production systems using modern programming languages (Python, Go, Rust, or Java).
- Deep knowledge of agentic systems design, such as Centralized and/or Decentralized MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) architectures.
- Solid understanding of Graph structures and specifically graph databases.
- Hands-on experience building agents, orchestration frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, Agno AGI, or custom), and evaluation harnesses.
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems.
- Strong fundamentals in API design (REST/gRPC) and distributed systems.
- Clear, concise communication skills and a bias for collaborative problem-solving.
- Proven track record of gathering consensus and guiding multi-stakeholder initiatives through uncertain boundaries.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Nice-to-have Domain Background
- Prior work in cybersecurity (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or MDR).
Startup Mentality
- Background driving high-impact engineering initiatives in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
Cloud Infrastructure
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Relevant certifications (AWS/GCP Professional Engineer, Kubernetes, or security-related credentials) are a plus.