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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Zscaler
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LOCATION

Santa Clara · Remote

EXPERIENCE

8+ Years

TYPE

FullTime

SALARY

$157.5K - $225K /year

SKILLS REQUIRED

Machine LearningPythonLLM EvaluationData PipelinesProduction EngineeringObservabilityLangchainSQL

Job description

Overview

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer on the AI Platform and Data Science team, focused on high-fidelity risk identification in customer data. Remote (USA) role reporting to the Manager AI Platform and Data Science.

What you'll do

  • Translate risk identification methods into agent logic, understanding the benefits and limitations of agents and ensuring quality across risk analysis, explanations, and recommendations
  • Collaborate closely with threat-research to understand data, threats, and their approach to developing security heuristics
  • Identify and solve data requirements for analysis, developing and collaborating with data engineering teams for pipelines, enrichments, and aggregations
  • Follow a data-driven quality approach to threat detection, including backtesting, balancing precision vs recall, tuning, and quality control
  • Deploy and monitor your solutions in production within our CI/CD framework

What you'll need

  • Experience building LLM-powered agents in production: tool and function calling, prompt and context engineering, multi-step orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, or equivalent), and evaluation of non-deterministic output against ground truth
  • 8+ years of professional Python development with demonstrated ability to design and maintain production-quality systems with validated inputs, data contracts, and comprehensive unit and integration tests
  • Hands-on expertise with SQL and Python data analytics libraries (e.g., pandas, Polars, NumPy)
  • Demonstrated ownership of production reliability: CI/CD, containerization, structured logging and metrics, observability and alerting, on-call participation, incident debugging in live distributed systems
  • Familiarity with cloud and infrastructure-as-code in an AWS environment
  • Sr. Staff level ownership and leadership of emergent requirements, architecture, and complex engineering projects

Nice to have

  • Experience with production AI or ML systems where cost, latency, and accuracy are competing constraints, including handling model selection, routing, and regression testing
  • Background in cyber threat research, threat modeling, threat hunting, detection engineering, or previous experience in data-driven risk analysis, fraud detection, adversary profiling and targeting, actuarial risk, or close collaboration with risk analysis teams
  • Data engineering experience building and operating pipelines over large-volume event data using SQL, columnar or search-backed stores (OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Athena/Presto), schema evolution, backfills, and data quality validation

Details

  • Remote (USA) role; location line also lists Santa Clara, California, USA
  • Full-time position
  • Base pay range $157,500 to $225,000 USD (excludes commission, bonus, equity and benefits)

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Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer