Senior Machine Learning Engineer (NLP, LLMs)

About Us: SentinelOne is defining the future of cybersecurity through our XDR platform that automatically prevents, detects, and responds to threats in real-time. Singularity XDR ingests data and leverages our patented AI models to deliver autonomous protection. With SentinelOne, organizations gain full transparency into everything happening across the network at machine speed – to defeat every attack, at every stage of the threat lifecycle. We are a values-driven team where names are known, results are rewarded, and friendships are formed. Trust, accountability, relentlessness, ingenuity, and OneSentinel define the pillars of our collaborative and unified global culture. We're looking for people that will drive team success and collaboration across SentinelOne. If you’re enthusiastic about innovative approaches to problem-solving, we would love to speak with you about joining our team!

What Are We Looking For? We are continuously expanding the capabilities of SentinelOne, actively listening to customers and responding to their needs. We are looking for a Senior AI / Machine Learning Researcher who will be directly involved in developing our core technology and ensuring we are always staying ahead of cybercriminals.

What Will You Do? You'll be part of a team of globally distributed AI engineers and researchers, focused on bringing the most recent advances in machine learning technology to help our customers efficiently discover and defeat threats. We're the team behind products such as PurpleAI (released for general availability in April 2024) and awarded one of the Top 10 hottest cyber products of 2023 & 2024, and more! As a ML specialist on the team:

• You will ideate and create features that will help our engineering teams as well as support our customers by providing better visibility into the health of the endpoints in the field.
• You will collaborate across multiple engineering teams to design and build new capabilities for SentinelOne’s industry-leading platform.
• Your focus may be directed more on the Science side (taking functional requirements in ML/AI from ideation to delivery) or the Platform side (efficiently delivering models & science systems into production) depending on your skills, experience & interests.

What Skills and Experience Will You Need?

• Master’s Degree in any quantitative science or engineering field. Additional or directly relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of experience solving complex problems using modern AI/ML techniques.
• Experience in designing, training, and evaluating models.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally across both research and product teams.
• Experience with large datasets for training machine learning models.

It’d be great if you have:

• Prior experience leading the development of generative models and their applications.
• Experience in software engineering and with data structures.
• Experience with endpoint security or OS concepts.
• Experience with model parallelism for working with large neural network architectures.
• First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences.
• Expertise in natural language processing, especially with modern transformer-based language models.
• Experience developing complex applications leveraging API-based LLMs.

Why Us? You will be joining a cutting-edge company, where you will tackle extraordinary challenges and work with the very best in the industry:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA.
• Unlimited PTO and industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave.
• Paid company holidays and sick time.
• Employee stock purchase program, disability and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program, gym membership reimbursement.
• Numerous company-sponsored events including regular happy hours and team-building events.

This U.S. role has a base pay range of $128,000—$165,000 USD, which may vary based on the candidate's location. If a different pay range applies, it will be provided during the recruiting process. You can also reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

SentinelOne is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. SentinelOne participates in the E-Verify Program for all U.S. based roles.