Illumio
Staff Security ML Researcher
Sunnyvale, California - HQ · Staff+
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About the role
- In this role, you'll apply advanced statistical methods, machine learning, and graph-based analysis to identify threats, model attacker behavior, and quantify cyber risk across complex enterprise environments.
- Machine Learning & Security Intelligence
- Apply statistical techniques and predictive modeling to evaluate breach likelihood, attack exposure, and segmentation effectiveness.
Responsibilities
- Build behavioral profiling, anomaly detection, clustering, classification, and forecasting models using large-scale security telemetry.
- Design and maintain scalable data pipelines used for model training, validation, and analytics.
- Partner with engineers to productionize models and analytics systems while ensuring scalability, reliability, and observability.
Requirements
- Proven ability to work with large-scale telemetry datasets from security, networking, cloud, or infrastructure environments.
- Strong understanding of model evaluation, feature engineering, experimentation, and handling imbalanced datasets.
- Familiarity with security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and common security telemetry sources.
Nice to have
- Experience productionizing ML models in cloud environments using AWS, Kubernetes, or similar platforms.
- Background at a cybersecurity company focused on cloud security, network security, endpoint security, or threat intelligence.
- Experience integrating external threat intelligence feeds and enrichment data into ML workflows.
- Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers.
- If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request.
Skills
- ONWARDS TOGETHER!
- 4 ON-SITE DAYS A WEEK IN SUNNYVALE, CA HEADQUARTERS.
- Help define security analytics frameworks, data requirements, and detection methodologies for future product capabilities.
Benefits
- Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that identify anomalous behavior, detect threats, and predict security risk across complex enterprise environments.
Company info
- The Office of the CTO and Security team sets the strategic technical direction of the company while keeping both Illumio and our customers secure.
- Those who join us represent the leader in Zero Trust Segmentation and maintain Illumio's competitive advantage by exploring new technologies while collaborating with Engineering and Product Management.
- We are looking for people who leverage differences and push the pace of innovation in a time when the world faces its greatest cybersecurity threats in history.
- Develop threat scoring and risk assessment models that help customers prioritize remediation and security investments.
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