ServiceNow
Senior Staff AI Security Engineer
$191K–$334K
Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years with a Bachelor's degree; OR 8+ years with a Master's degree; OR 6+ years with a PhD; OR equivalent work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree; OR Master's degree; OR PhD; OR equivalent work experience.
About the job
Architects and leads production-scale AI security systems, including real-time inference, identity and access decisions, threat detection, and sensitive-data classification.
What you'll do
- Build ML-driven security systems for identity risk, anomalous access, malware, and sensitive-data detection.
- Architect inference pipelines and reusable ML infrastructure; operate systems with monitoring, retraining, and safe deployment.
- Lead technical initiatives and integrate AI security solutions across identity, access control, threat detection, and infrastructure.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of software development experience; OR Master's degree with 8+ years; OR PhD with 6+ years; OR equivalent work experience.
- Hands-on experience implementing machine learning algorithms from scratch and deploying ML systems in production at significant scale.
- Deep programming expertise in Java and/or Python, including systems-level knowledge and performance optimization.
- Expertise in ML systems and security, including inference, identity and access control, and applying ML to security problems.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kafka, stream processing, or real-time data systems for security applications.
- Hands-on work with cryptography, zero-trust architectures, or OAuth/mTLS.
Pay
$190,900 - $334,100 USD base pay
Tools
Java, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kafka, OAuth/mTLS
AI focus
Build and operate ML-driven security systems; develop real-time inference and reasoning systems; apply LLMs, RAG, and agentic approaches to security; monitor, retrain, and safely deploy production models.
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