# Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Censys

- Company: Censys
- What the company does: Censys empowers security teams with the most comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date map of the internet to defend attack surfaces and hunt for threats. Backed by Greylock and GV.
- Company website: https://censys.io/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US/Canada)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $174K to $206K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/censys/jobs/8731027002
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/censys-senior-machine-learning-engineer/

## About the role

Censys is building the most credible, robust map of the Internet through IP scanning, DNS lookups, web crawling, and the ingestion of millions of certificates. Censys was founded by security researchers who are passionate about developing technology that provides anyone the power to fully understand their digital risk and exposure. Individuals and enterprises–and anyone in between–can harness this power to discover new information and insight as the Internet, IoT and Cloud evolve.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or software engineering with applied ML responsibilities
- Experience building and deploying machine learning or statistical models in production environments
- Experience programming in Go/Python, and familiarity with software engineering practices for building maintainable systems
- Experience working with large datasets and building data pipelines for feature generation, training, or inference
- Proficiency with supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, such as classification, clustering, similarity scoring, or anomaly detection
- Ability to evaluate models using sound statistics and understand tradeoffs related to precision, recall, accuracy, and confidence

Tags: Engineering