AI Research Scientist - Cybersecurity ML (Hybrid)

Tanium; Emeryville (CA); Hybrid; USD 143,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium is seeking an AI Research Scientist to design, prototype, and evaluate AI and ML models powering intelligent endpoint management and security solutions. You will collaborate across engineering and product teams to translate research into scalable product features.

The role requires collaboration across functions, staying current with AI and endpoint management technologies, and working in a hybrid model at locations including Emeryville, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience in applied machine learning, data science, or AI research, or equivalent demonstrated expertise
• Experience developing and deploying ML models for classification, regression, or anomaly detection
• Experience working with large-scale datasets and the tools and techniques required to process and analyze them efficiently
• Experience in areas such as statistical modeling, anomaly detection, internals of LLMs, or agentic AI systems

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to design and implement AI and ML algorithms.
• Develop and evaluate ML models across use cases including anomaly detection, threat identification, and performance optimization.
• Analyze large-scale endpoint data to extract insights and develop predictive models.
• Contribute to data pipelines for processing endpoint data at scale.
• Document research methodologies, experiments, and results to support reproducibility.
• Stay up to date with AI/ML advancements and endpoint technologies.
• Translate research findings into scalable product features with cross-functional teams

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Math/Stats/Data Science or related field

Tools

PyTorch

scikit-learn

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

pandas

Job description

Tanium is seeking an AI Research Scientist to design, prototype, and evaluate AI and ML models powering intelligent endpoint management and security solutions. You will collaborate across engineering and product teams to translate research into scalable product features.

The role requires collaboration across functions, staying current with AI and endpoint management technologies, and working in a hybrid model at locations including Emeryville, CA.