Senior AI/ML Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p><span class="TextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">At Dragos, the mission is personal. The systems we protect deliver the water you drink, power your home, and keep the hospitals your community depends on running. Those critical infrastructure systems that power our civilization around the world are under attack every day by adversaries. When those systems fail, people are&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">immediately</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">&nbsp;at risk.&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">We are the global leader in&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">xOT</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">&nbsp;cybersecurity, combining technology, threat intelligence, and expert services. The people here chose this work because they understand&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">what is</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">&nbsp;at stake</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW107525881 BCX8">. Here, you will find a remote-first mission-driven team across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC built on authenticity, transparency, and trust. If safeguarding the systems that protect your family, friends, and community is the kind of work that matters to you, you are in the right place.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW107525881 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":120,"335559739":160,"335559740":360}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Role</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">We're&nbsp;looking for a Machine Learning Application Engineer to join our Engineering team. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and applied ML.&nbsp;You'll&nbsp;be taking existing model types and putting them to work inside our product and data pipelines. You&nbsp;won't&nbsp;be training models from scratch or managing ML infrastructure, but you will be doing the&nbsp;thoughtful applied&nbsp;work of figuring out&nbsp;</span><em><span data-contrast="none">which</span></em><span data-contrast="none">&nbsp;techniques fit&nbsp;</span><em><span data-contrast="none">which</span></em><span data-contrast="none">&nbsp;problems, wiring them into our workflows, and making sure the outputs are reliable and useful.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">You'll&nbsp;work closely with AI Engineers, Data Engineers, and product teams to bring ML-driven capabilities into the Dragos platform. Things like clustering network behaviors, classifying assets, and surfacing anomalies that matter&nbsp;for&nbsp;ICS/OT security analysts.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="none">Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Apply clustering, classification, anomaly detection, and other established ML techniques to cybersecurity data problems in the ICS/OT domain.</span> </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Integrate ML model outputs into existing data pipelines and product workflows, supporting both batch and near-real-time processing patterns. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Understand model behavior and translate research outputs into reliable pipeline components. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Work with Data Engineers to ensure ML-driven stages of the pipeline have clear data contracts, appropriate observability, and sane failure modes. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Evaluate open-source and third-party models for fit against specific use cases,&nbsp;&nbsp;knowing when to apply an existing tool versus when to escalate to a model-building effort. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Write clean, maintainable Python or Rust that other engineers can reason about, test, and extend. </li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Troubleshoot ML component behavior in production to diagnose issues with outp