Senior Director, AI Security Analytics & Threat Containment

Leadout Capital; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadout Capital in Bellevue, WA or McLean, VA seeks a Senior Director, Security Analytics to own the strategy, development, and operation of data science and ML capabilities built into our customer-facing security products. This leader will drive real-time threat detection and containment at scale in a high-growth SaaS environment.

You will lead security data scientists, ML engineers, and detection engineers, collaborating with Product, UX, and executive stakeholders to deliver trust dashboards

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security data science, ML engineering, or similar security analytics roles.
• Proven track record of shipping production ML models into commercial software platforms in multi-tenant SaaS.
• Ability to translate complex analytics into clear security insights and dashboards for executives.
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Incident Response teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the customer-facing security analytics roadmap end to end, driving AI product defense and threat containment.
• Build safeguards against AI-specific attacks, including prompt injection and data exfiltration.
• Design analytics with automated containment mechanisms to neutralize threats without disrupting customers.
• Partner with Product, UX, and leadership to translate statistics into actionable insights and SLAs.

Skills

Security data science

Machine learning engineering

Security analytics

SaaS product development

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Scikit-Learn

Spark

Flink

Job description

Leadout Capital in Bellevue, WA or McLean, VA seeks a Senior Director, Security Analytics to own the strategy, development, and operation of data science and ML capabilities built into our customer-facing security products. This leader will drive real-time threat detection and containment at scale in a high-growth SaaS environment.

You will lead security data scientists, ML engineers, and detection engineers, collaborating with Product, UX, and executive stakeholders to deliver trust dashboards