# Staff Security ML Researcher at Illumio

- Company: Illumio
- What the company does: Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and a16z.
- Company website: http://www.illumio.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Sunnyvale, California - HQ
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $221K to $265K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/illumio/e25b3b38-2355-4dd0-8a10-7ef7dbb04ee6
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/illumio-staff-security-ml-researcher/

## About the role

We're seeking a Staff Security ML Researcher to develop machine learning-driven approaches for threat detection, risk assessment, and security analytics. 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.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in security analytics, threat research, detection engineering or data science, machine learning
- Strong Python programming skills, including experience with data science and machine learning frameworks such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
- Experience designing, training, validating, and deploying machine learning or statistical models in production environments
- 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
- Experience applying analytics or machine learning techniques to cybersecurity problems such as anomaly detection, behavioral analysis, threat hunting, or risk assessment

Tags: Security