Founding Machine Learning Engineer

NYC. Posted a month ago

The role

The second ML Engineer will define and build Adaptive's ML capabilities from the ground up. You will set technical direction, stand up infrastructure, and design production ML systems to detect and respond to cybersecurity threats.

What you will do

Define Adaptive's ML strategy including infrastructure and build vs. buy decisions.
Design and build production ML systems end-to-end.
Establish evaluation methodology to measure model quality.
Own the strategy for data acquisition and labeling.
Partner with product engineers to integrate ML into the product.
Write production code within the existing codebase.
Build and lead the ML team as scope grows.

Required qualifications

4+ years of experience building ML systems in production.
Strong software engineering fundamentals.
Write production-quality code in modern languages (Python, Java, TypeScript).
Experience with cloud ML infrastructure (AWS SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, Baseten, or similar).
Experience with common ML and data processing frameworks (PyTorch, Tensorflow, Spark).
Comfortable working across the stack including infrastructure, backend services, and data systems.
High autonomy.

Nice to have

experience standing up the ML function at an early stage startup
experience as the senior or lead ML person at a previous company

Benefits

Competitive cash compensation
Meaningful stock
Several medical plans, most covered at 100% by Adaptive
401k through Vestwell
Unlimited PTO, including winter break from Dec 24 - Jan 1
Office atmosphere including coffee, espresso, lounge, snacks, whiteboards, and conference space
Rotating choice of 4 free lunch options from local restaurants every day
Expense dinner if you are in the office past 7pm
Expense Uber if you stay past 9pm

About the company

Adaptive is a cybersecurity startup on a mission to stop AI-powered cyberattacks. It was founded by Brian Long and Andrew Jones and has received investment from NVIDIA, OpenAI, and others.