Staff Machine Learning Engineer at SecurityScorecard
Worldwide
<p><strong>About SecurityScorecard:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, with over 12 million companies continuously rated, operating in 64 countries. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh and funded by world-class investors, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their digital footprint. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Headquartered in New York City, our culture has been recognized by Inc Magazine as a "Best Workplace,” by Crain’s NY as a "Best Places to Work in NYC," and as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in New York for two years in a row. Most recently, SecurityScorecard was named to Fast Company’s annual list of the</span><a href="https://securityscorecard.com/blog/blog-top-innovators-of-the-year/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and to the Achievers 50 Most Engaged Workplaces in 2023 award recognizing “forward-thinking employers for their unwavering commitment to employee engagement.” SecurityScorecard is proud to be funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV and Riverwood Capital.</span></p> <p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p> <p>As a Staff ML Engineer, you will be a <strong>hands-on</strong> technical leader within the Data Science organization, sharing your experience and establishing best practices. You will design, implement, and deploy reliable ML models into production, build scalable data pipelines, and develop both LLM-powered systems and multi-agent architectures to automate and accelerate cybersecurity risk assessment workflows. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML and LLM powered solutions into products, conduct research to stay ahead of emerging technologies, and ensure models perform optimally through ongoing monitoring and refinement. Your work will directly enhance cybersecurity resilience for organizations worldwide, making the world a safer place. If you’re passionate about solving complex problems and creating impactful solutions, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact while working in a dynamic, collaborative environment.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Technical Leadership</strong>: Establish best practices and share expertise through collaboration and mentorship.</li> <li><strong>Model Development & Deployment:</strong> Design, train, fine-tune, and optimize machine learning models and algorithms, then deploy them into production environments with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.</li> <li><strong>LLM & Multi-Agent Systems:</strong> Develop and maintain advanced LLM-powered systems and multi-agent architectures to automate and accelerate cybersecurity risk assessment workflows. This includes designing conversational AI agents, orchestrating interactions between multiple agents, and building scalable RESTful APIs and microservices to expose model capabilities for integration with broader product ecosystems.</li> <li><strong>Performance Monitoring:</strong> Implement best practices such as continuous monitoring, data drift detection, and automated retraining to ensure long-term model accuracy, robustness, and stability.</li> <li><strong>Data Pipeline Creation</strong>: Build and maintain scalable data pipelines to preprocess, clean, and transform raw data for analysis and model training.</li> <li><strong>Research and Experimentation</strong>: Stay updated on the latest machine learning techniques, tools, and frameworks to enhance model accuracy and efficiency.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong>:</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.</li> <li>7+ years of experience or equivalent demonstrable skills in ML Engineering, Data Science or related discipline.</li> <li>Proven track record as a technical lead, with the ability to guide teams, establish best practices, and drive technical strategy in collaborative environments.</li> <li>Strong programming skills in Python, with hands-on experience using ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Scikit-learn.</li> <li>Proficiency in data manipulation, cleaning and analysis using tools such as Polars, Pandas, NumPy, or SQL.</li> <li>Extensive experience in traditional machine learning and data science tasks, including feature engineering, model selection, evaluation, and hyperparameter tuning.</li> <li>Solid understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, and predictive modeling.</li> <li>Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems with large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using tools like LangChain and LlamaIndex.</li> <li>Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.</li> <li>Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or Kafka</li> <li>Experience implementing MLOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code with Terraform, and model versioning tools such as MLflow and DVC.</li> <li>Proficient in deploying and maintaining high-quality ML pipelines, with robust monitoring and alerting for data and model drift, automated retraining, reproducibility, observability, and production-grade reliability and compliance.</li> </ul> <p><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"SecurityScorecard is an industry-leading cybersecurity company backed by Google, Sequoia, and Riverwood. Our mission is to make the world a safer place. We measure your and your vendors' cyber-health by assigning a security rating of \"A\" through \"F\" based on outside-in, non-intrusive data. Our Comprehensive security ratings, advanced data analytics, and actionable insights discover Third-Party Vulnerabilities & Security Gaps In Real-Time. \nHeadquartered in NYC with over 200+ employees globally, raised over $110M USD, used by 1,000+ enterprise customers, and rating 1.5 million companies. We have created a new category of enterprise software, and our culture has helped us be recognized as one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row.\nOur vision is to create a new language for companies and their partners to communicate, understand, and improve each other’s security posture."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":15235,"3":{"1":0},"4":[null,2,16043212],"10":2,"11":4,"12":0,"14":[null,2,0],"15":"\"Proxima Nova\"","16":10}"><strong>Benefits:</strong></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">SecurityScorecard is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and embraces diversity. We believe that our team is strengthened through hiring and retaining employees with diverse backgrounds, skill sets, ideas, and perspectives. We make hiring decisions based on merit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex or gender (including pregnancy) gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, age, marital, veteran, disability status or any other protected category in accordance with applicable law. </span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact talentacquisitionoperations@securityscorecard.io.</span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any information you submit to SecurityScorecard as part of your application will be processed in accordance with the Company’s privacy policy and applicable law. </span></em></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">SecurityScorecard does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position. <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#LI-DNI</span></span></em></p>
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