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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