Senior/Staff/Principal AI/ML Engineer - Agentic AI Security

AppGate Cybersecurity, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AppGate is seeking an AI/ML Engineer (Senior/Staff/Principal) to design, build, and operate detection algorithms and ML inference pipelines for its autonomous Agentic AI Security platform, working at the intersection of identity security, behavioral analytics, and applied machine learning.

You will deploy real-time ZTNA threat detection across identity, network, and device telemetry, develop risk scoring and enforcement workflows, and advance AI-driven remediation whilst maintaining

Qualifications

• Design and implement identity-based threat detections.
• Experience with production ML pipelines and model lifecycle.
• Real-time data processing with streaming technologies.

Responsibilities

• Build threat detection engines and risk scoring systems.
• Design real-time detection pipelines with low latency.
• Define security controls for autonomous AI agents.
• Develop autonomous remediation workflows and monitoring.

Skills

Threat detection

MLOps

Production AI/ML systems

Data streaming

Security domain knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

MLflow

Kubeflow

SageMaker

Kafka

Flink

Job description

About AppGate

AppGate secures and protects an organization's most valuable assets with its high performance Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) solution. AppGate is the only direct-routed ZTNA solution built for peak performance, superior protection and seamless interoperability. AppGate safeguards Fortune 500 enterprises worldwide. Learn more at appgate.com.

About the Role

We're looking for a AI/ML Engineer (Senior/Staff/Principal) - Agentic AI Security who will design, build, and operationalize the detection algorithms, ML inference pipelines, and risk aggregation systems that power our autonomous Agentic AI threat detection platform.

You’ll work at the intersection of identity security, behavioral analytics, and applied machine learning - building an agentic AI security platform that provides end to end visibility, control and protection against rogue/malicious agents. You will build production systems that analyze ZTNA logs in near real-time, surface high-fidelity threat signals, and feed into our Risk Sentinel enforcement engine to continuously harden access decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Threat Detection Engine: Build advanced detections to identify threats early, including identity compromise, privilege escalation, impossible travel, and data exfiltration across identity, network, device, and session telemetry.
• Risk Aggregation & Enforcement: Design/develop accurate and explainable risk scoring systems that continuously normalize and correlate detection signals into dynamic user, device, and session risk scores that directly drive adaptive access enforcement decisions.
• Real-Time Detection Pipeline: Build scalable, low-latency streaming pipelines that process ZTNA events in near real time, enabling resilient, high-throughput security analytics.
• AI Agent Security: Define and implement security controls for autonomous AI agents, including detection of agent drift, unauthorized resource access, prompt injection attacks, privilege escalation, data leakage, and other emerging threats in Agentic AI systems.
• Autonomous Remediation (Roadmap): Leverage agentic AI to automate threat investigation, contextual analysis, and remediation workflows, enabling intelligent containment and response for high-confidence security incidents.
• Train, evaluate, and deploy ML models on real-world identity and network telemetry; tune for production precision and recall targets.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of production AI/ML engineering experience, with a strong preference for candidates who have built threat detection, UEBA, ITDR, or identity security platforms at leading security or cloud companies.
• Detection algorithm expertise: Hands-on experience designing detections for identity-based threats - credential compromise, privilege escalation, insider activity, behavioral anomalies, and data exfiltration.
• MLOps & Productionization: Experience building and operating scalable MLOps platforms for AI/ML systems, including model lifecycle management, CI/CD for ML pipelines, feature stores, automated retraining, model monitoring/drift detection, experiment tracking, and deployment orchestration using Kubernetes, MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker, or equivalent tooling in high-throughput production environments.
• ML proficiency: Experience building AI-powered security systems using large language models, deep learning, and agentic AI techniques for threat detection, anomaly analysis, contextual investigation, and intelligent remediation.
• Data & streaming engineering: Real-time or near-real-time pipeline experience (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or equivalent); familiarity with lakehouse formats (Apache Iceberg, Parquet).
• Security domain knowledge: MITRE ATT&CK, identity threat kill chains, ZTNA or network access control systems, and audit log analysis.
• Mindset: Mission-driven, production-focused, signal-obsessed. You measure precision and recall, you eliminate alert fatigue, and you care that your work protects real systems.

This is your chance to build the AI systems that detect, prevent, and auto-remediate threats across networks, users, and autonomous AI agents.

If you are an experienced AI/ML Engineer who has built identity or network threat detection platforms at scale and wants your next platform to protect the people and infrastructure the world depends on - we want to hear from you.

AppGate is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and a federal contractor subject to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 as amended, and their corresponding regulations. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class. Further, AppGate is an affirmative action employer committed to taking positive steps to employ, advance in employment and otherwise afford equal employment opportunity to protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. In furtherance of AppGate's policy regarding affirmative action and equal employment opportunity, AppGate has developed a written affirmative action program. This program is available for review upon request by any applicant or employee during normal business hours by contacting the company's EEO Coordinator.