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Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Company | Zscaler |
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Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
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Salary | $175000 – $250000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer, with a proven track record of delivering successful projects, along with a solid understanding of machine learning concepts and their applications in cybersecurity
- Excellent communication skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts to stakeholders
- Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, ML libraries and frameworks
- Extensive experience in data modeling, feature engineering, model development, and error analysis
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (Master’s Degree or PhD preferred)
Responsibilities
- Leading the design and development of cutting edge, production ready ML systems and pipelines, cybersecurity applications and providing technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers
- Optimizing existing machine learning pipelines for improved efficiency and scalability
- Exploring and experimenting with advanced AI techniques and architectures to solve complex cybersecurity problems as well as staying updated on the latest advancements in AI and applying them to our cybersecurity solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Ensuring systems and applications meet reliability, scalability and performance requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Proven track record of designing, building and shipping end-end applications at scale, with familiarity with multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworks
- Strong experience with LLM’s, agent architectures, prompt engineering and SOTA AI frameworks, along with contributions to open-source ML projects, top-tier research publications
- Deep expertise with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP) for AI workloads