Cylake
Applied AI Engineer
$150K–$250K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years, and/or a Ph.D. in a related technical field.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (as an alternative to the stated years of experience).
- Visa sponsorship
- Any offer is conditioned on authorization to receive export-controlled software or technology without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and deploy AI capabilities for cybersecurity products, including agentic systems, machine-learning solutions, and LLMs for threat detection and security operations.
What you'll do
- Develop agentic AI systems and optimize LLMs for SOC, SOAR, and SIEM use cases.
- Build evaluation frameworks, model pipelines, and ML/deep-learning solutions for detecting and classifying security threats.
- Integrate AI models into production security products and collaborate with security researchers and software engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years applying machine learning, deep learning, or generative AI to cybersecurity or related domains, and/or a Ph.D. in a related technical field.
- Track record delivering AI/ML solutions into production end-to-end; understanding of AI agent architectures and implementation patterns.
- Experience with LLM supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning, preference optimization, and model distillation.
- Strong Python proficiency and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLM pre-training, inference optimization, and model serving infrastructure.
- Experience with big data streaming and distributed processing, cybersecurity AI, or AI/ML contributions to competitions, open source, blogs, arXiv, or research publications.
Pay
$150,000 – $250,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, LLMs, SOC, SOAR, SIEM
AI focus
Develop agentic AI, train and post-train LLMs, create model evaluation frameworks, build ML and deep-learning threat-detection solutions, and optimize inference and serving.
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