Detection Engineer - PoC ML for OT Security (Remote)

Doist; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Health Savings Account with employer"s

Life and Disability Insurance

Uncapped paid time off

Flexible work & remote policy

Transit benefits (Metro SmartBenefits)

Job summary

Shift5 is building the data platform for OT; we seek a Detection Engineer to join our Research team in Arlington, VA. You will design PoC detection capabilities bridging research and engineering delivery, focusing on cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and telemetry anomalies.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists and Product Engineers to operationalize insights, validate algorithms, and contribute to testbeds and validation suites in a fast-paced startup setting.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in CS, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Data Science.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Rust (or C/C++ with Rust interest).
• Strong developer tooling experience (Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Linux CLI).
• Solid data analysis, basic ML concepts, OS Linux, and cybersecurity anomaly detection fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End PoC algorithm development to validate anomaly detection techniques for cybersecurity threats and telemetry anomalies.
• Operationalize statistical insights with Data Scientists and hand off validated algorithms to Product Engineers.
• Collaborate across Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) to deliver detection capabilities.
• Analyze large serial bus and telemetry data to distinguish benign vs abnormal or malicious activity.
• Read specifications to build protocol parser logic with vulnerability researchers.
• Develop testing frameworks, simulation environments, and validation suites for detection modules.

Skills

Python

Rust

C/C++

Data analysis

Machine Learning basics

Operating Systems (Linux)

Cybersecurity anomaly detection

Git

GitHub Actions

Docker

Education

BS/MS in CS, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Data Science

Tools

Git

GitHub Actions

Docker

Linux CLI

Job description

Shift5 is building the data platform for OT; we seek a Detection Engineer to join our Research team in Arlington, VA. You will design PoC detection capabilities bridging research and engineering delivery, focusing on cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, and telemetry anomalies.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists and Product Engineers to operationalize insights, validate algorithms, and contribute to testbeds and validation suites in a fast-paced startup setting.