Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Illumio

$178-205k

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

Illumio

Automated enforcement against cyberattacks

Job no longer available

Illumio

Automated enforcement against cyberattacks

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSCyber SecurityAutomation

Job no longer available

$178-205k

Senior level
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office (Sunnyvale, CA)

501-1000 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSCyber SecurityAutomation

Company mission

To enable every organization to realize a future without high-profile breaches.

Role

Who you are

  • To excel in this role, you must possess competent knowledge of Gen AI tooling and fine-tuning pretrained models
  • You should have comprehensive experience in building 0->1 ML products, transition initial prototypes to production-ready large-scale machine learning models
  • Proficiency in GPT/OpenAI API and prompt engineering
  • Comprehensive grasp on Natural Language Processing techniques
  • Experience in implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAGs) to leverage structured and unstructured data
  • Hands-on model building with Hugging Face, LangChain or other production-ready frameworks

What the job involves

  • As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on Gen AI, you will be building a pioneering product focused on solving cybersecurity issues faced by businesses of all scales
  • You will lead the design and build a zero-trust security advisor, a conversational interface to interact with security policies and traffic data
  • You will build LLMs for code generation and UI interactions, providing vital security insights to organizations about their infrastructure
  • Employ state-of-the-art pre-trained LLM/Azure Open AI models to build the conversational interface for our customers to analyze, summarize information and interact with Illumio's UI/APIs
  • Perform fine-tuning of open source local LLM models to improve the responses for users and handle complex queries
  • Devise and run experiments with NLP preprocessing and other techniques to improve the performance of models on accurate code generation
  • Collaborate with seasoned machine learning, full-stack and cybersecurity engineers to deploy large-scale models to production
  • Proactively contribute to cultivating a new team and product domain, offering strategic impetus shaping the roadmap and vision for the product

Our take

Cybersecurity remains an ongoing battle, with evolving cyberthreats and ever-more determined cybercriminals, and major data breaches such as the SolarWinds hack have the potential to cause widespread disruption. Illumio is taking a different approach to most of the mainstream security companies, with a process called "microsegmentation". This makes it easier to guard companies from security breaches, and contain any breaches that occur.

Detection of viruses is no longer considered sufficient to keep companies and individuals safe. Illumio takes a “zero trust” approach, in which everything is viewed as suspicious, a similar approach to that which is used by the White House. The company operates at the cutting edge of microsegmentation, focusing on protecting cloud datacenters and workloads. With more and more companies moving to the cloud, this approach is crucial.

Illumio also protects endpoints, partnering with big players such as Citrix, Amazon Web Services, and Splunk. A collaboration with Appgate, a Zero Trust secure access company, delivers the industry's first integrated Zero Trust Network Access and Segmentation solution, which can reduce risk across hybrid infrastructure, and proves Illumio's dedication to innovating the space. Additionally, the company announced a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), that is tailored to assist federal agencies in reducing risk.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

Jun 2021

$225m

SERIES F

Feb 2019

$65m

SERIES E

Total funding: $557m

Company benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
  • Health and Dependent Savings Accounts
  • Life and Disability Programs
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Voluntary Benefit Programs
  • Company Sponsored Wellness Program
  • Wellness Reimbursement Program
  • Retirement Savings
  • Equity Opportunities
  • Paid time off and Paid Holidays
  • Employee Incentive Program

Company values

  • Seek Truth
  • Run to challenges
  • Bring your best
  • Onwards Together
  • Leverage differences
  • Build trust

Company HQ

Sunnyvale, CA

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Leadership

Started in Business Development, as an Analyst at VoiceNet Communications, and as a Director at VoiceNet. Worked at Cymtec Systems for over 8 years, promoted from VP of Sales to CEO. Seed Investor in Tory Burch, and Powermat. Current Strategic Advisor to Menlo Security, and Bolt.

Studied Computer Science at Cornell. Worked as an Engineer Manager for over 6 years at Trilogy. Software Architect at Funkware for over 3 years. Was Principal Systems Engineer at Cluster File Systems. Distinguished Engineer for over 5 years at Juniper Networks. Was CTO of Cymtec Systems.

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