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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Autonomous Defense

Horizon3.ai · US, Remote · Remote

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About Horizon3.ai

Horizon3 uses real-world attacks to safely show what attackers can actually do in your environment—so you can fix and prove what matters. Backed by NEA.

About the role

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Defensive Agent team, you'll be the person who gets our defensive models into production and keeps them there. Our AI researchers define how NodeZero's agents should reason. You build the pipelines, serve infrastructure, and release machinery that turns that research into something running against thousands of customer tenants every day.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ yrs professional software engineering experience, with strong production Python
  • Demonstrated experience taking ML or LLM-backed systems from prototype to production and operating them
  • Hands-on experience with ML pipelines and tooling: training or fine-tuning workflows, experiment tracking, artifact and model registries, and reproducible data preparation
  • Experience building and operating inference or model-serving infrastructure in production, including latency and cost optimization
  • Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, using container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
More about this role

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs.

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

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