# Software Development Engineer (Machine Learning) at Fortinet

- Company: Fortinet
- What the company does: Fortinet delivers cybersecurity everywhere you need it. We secure the entire digital attack surface from devices, data, and apps and from data center to home office. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: https://www.fortinet.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Sunnyvale, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://edel.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/24397
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/fortinet-software-development-engineer-machine-learning/

## About the role

FortiAIGate is Fortinet's AI security and governance gateway. It sits inline between enterprise users, AI agents, and LLM providers, inspecting prompts and responses in real time to detect prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data exposure, and policy violations — under a strict latency budget. We are hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to own the detection models behind that product: training, evaluation, optimization, and the serving stack that runs them in production.