Nightfall is looking for an exceptional technical leader to join their AI Engineering organization to drive execution, provide technical expertise, raise the bar of the team, and contribute towards shaping the long-term architecture of the AI platform that powers their Data Leak Protection (DLP) and other Security products.
Requirements
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on, technical development experience
- Strong expertise in Python with additional language such as Go, C++, Java or Rust. Knowledge of data structures and algorithms is a must.
- Grounded in Data Science and Machine Learning algorithms with demonstrated business impact through training custom deep learning NLP models, and LLMs.
- ML training and inferencing at scale with hands-on experience with horizontal and vertical scaling, including use of GPUs.
- Experience with fine-tuning LLMs, prompt and context engineering, RAG/vector databases. conversational/agentic frameworks is a plus
- Experience with ML Ops frameworks such as Sagemaker, MLflow, etc.
- Familiarity with AWS and managed infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Data Analysis, Machine Modeling, System Architecture and Coding to launch AI systems in production
- Help shape the architecture of the AI Platform to enable the use of cutting edge ML technologies while ensuring it is scalable and reliable
- Implement best of practices in a fast-paced engineering environment and champion a culture of engineering excellence and productivity
Other
- 3-10 years of experience mentoring and technically leading Data Science or ML Engineering teams.
- Drive great execution, work with the team to set clear goals, and deliver against them
- Experience working in high growth venture-backed startups
- Prior experience using AI in Security domain
- Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your day to day responsibilities
