Founding AI Scientist: Security & Production ML

Deca Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Deca Talent is partnering with an early-stage AI security startup to hire a Founding AI Scientist / ML Research Engineer who will span research and engineering, turning modern ML/LLMs into production-ready systems.

This role focuses on building LLM/ML solutions for security applications, designing robust evaluation frameworks, and guiding the technical direction of the AI platform with real enterprise data.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with LLMs and modern machine learning.
• Hands-on experience with model evaluations / LLM evals.
• Strong ML engineering capabilities alongside research experience.
• Experience turning research into production-ready systems.
• Ability to work independently and own significant technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Developing LLM and ML systems for AI security applications.
• Designing and building rigorous model evaluation / eval frameworks.
• Researching new approaches to reasoning, classification and decision-making with LLMs.
• Working with real-world enterprise data, identity, access and behavioral signals.
• Helping shape the technical direction of the AI platform at an early-stage company.

Skills

LLMs

ML Research

Model evaluations

ML engineering

Production systems

Research to production

Tools

Eval frameworks

Job description

Deca Talent is partnering with an early-stage AI security startup to hire a Founding AI Scientist / ML Research Engineer who will span research and engineering, turning modern ML/LLMs into production-ready systems.

This role focuses on building LLM/ML solutions for security applications, designing robust evaluation frameworks, and guiding the technical direction of the AI platform with real enterprise data.