Censys
Senior AI/LLM Engineer
Remote (US/Canada) · Senior
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PythonCI/CDMachine LearningDeep LearningData EngineeringLLMsRAGCybersecurityComplianceTest AutomationManual TestingCollaboration
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About the role
- Trusted by organizations worldwide, Censys cuts through the noise to surface the most critical risks, enabling teams to respond faster, and stay ahead of attackers.
- Role Summary: Censys is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our SOC/TH team focused on AI and LLMs.
Responsibilities
- Develop and fine-tune LLMs and RAG pipelines to reason over Internet-scale data, summarize findings, and deliver context-aware insights.
- Build, scale and maintain AI-driven analytics and automation systems helping users make faster, data-backed decisions
- Collaborate with frontend, product, and data engineering teams to integrate AI-native experiences that feel seamless, intuitive, and secure
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building and scaling AI-powered user-facing features
- Ability to rapidly prototype, validate and refine AI features in a fast-paced, experiment-driven environment
- Proven ability to optimize AI models for low-latency, real-time interactions in browser or frontend environments
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python for backend and API services development
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and deployment best practices for AI applications.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and LLM fine-tuning
Compensation
- For high cost of living areas (San Francisco Bay, New York City, and Seattle), the expected salary range for this position is $179,000 USD - $201,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
- For all other locations, the expected salary range for this position is $148,000 USD - $192,000 USD, plus bonus eligibility and equity.
Benefits
- Apply machine learning to streamline workflows, personalize experiences, and surface critical insights
- Advanced knowledge of AI/ML architectures, model evaluation, and applied deep learning
- In addition to our great compensation package, our benefits are effective on day one and include but are not limited to: 401k match, health, vision, dental, and more!
Company info
- At Censys, we're on a mission to provide best in class internet visibility and intelligence to the global security community.
- We're constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible to help our customers see and secure the internet more clearly than ever before.
- For this role, we are open to remote employees across the continental US and Canada.
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