Drimva

ServiceNow

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

$240K–$420K

Santa Clara, CALIFORNIA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026

Experience
15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical and engineering leadership responsibility.
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Sets the technical vision and leads development of enterprise-scale, exploitability-based security products using machine learning and AI.

What you'll do

  • Define modeling, architecture, and engineering direction for exploitability-driven security across multiple teams.
  • Build and apply AI/ML to cybersecurity products, including attack-path probability, security scoring, and agentic systems.
  • Represent the technology to stakeholders and mentor senior engineers while setting production standards for AI safety and reliability.

What they ask for

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant technical and engineering leadership responsibility.
  • Production experience designing and delivering AI/ML-powered products and platforms, including modern AI/ML and probabilistic or ML-driven scoring.
  • Expert-level Python; command of distributed systems, APIs, cloud-native platforms, and data or graph systems.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Applied cybersecurity expertise, such as threat detection, vulnerability and exposure management, identity security, or risk prioritization.
  • Experience with Java, Go, or similar languages; probabilistic modeling or graph analytics.

Pay

$240,100 - $420,200 USD base salary

Tools

Python, LLMs, foundation models, RAG, Java, Go, MLOps, Cursor

AI focus

Develops AI/ML-powered cybersecurity products focused on exploitability analysis and risk scoring, and sets direction for agentic systems, AI safety, governance, and AI-native engineering workflows.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)