Adaptive Security
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
NYC · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years building ML systems in production.
About the job
Define and build Adaptive’s machine-learning capabilities and production systems for detecting, classifying, and responding to cybersecurity threats in real time.
What you'll do
- Set ML strategy, infrastructure, and build-versus-buy direction; build the ML function as it grows.
- Develop end-to-end production ML systems, including data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and inference serving.
- Own data and feedback strategies, integrate ML into products with engineering partners, and lead the ML team as scope expands.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience building ML systems in production.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and production-quality coding in modern languages, with experience in large codebases.
- Experience with cloud ML infrastructure such as AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten, or similar.
- Experience with common ML and data-processing frameworks such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, or Spark.
Nice to have
- Experience standing up the ML function at an early-stage startup or serving as a senior or lead ML person at a previous company.
Tools
Python, Java, TypeScript, AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten, PyTorch
AI focus
Build and operate ML and LLM systems that detect, classify, and respond to cybersecurity threats in real time, including adversarial threats, with evaluation and data feedback methods.
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