Core AI/ML Software Engineer (Remote, US)
Defendermate • United States (Remote)
Company
Defendermate
Annual salary
$200k – $275k/yr
Location
United States (Remote)
Listed
16d ago
- Experience:
- 8 to 12 years
- Workplace:
- US or Canada-based, fully remote
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
United States (Remote).
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About this Role
We are looking for a Core AI/ML Software Engineer with 8, 12 years of experience to own the AI brain of our cybersecurity platform. You'll work with full autonomy at a seed-stage startup solving a hard problem: determining whether vulnerabilities are exploitable in a customer's environment. This role sits at the intersection of NLP, agentic AI, and systems engineering, building pipelines that mine unstructured security intelligence and power automated exploitability assessments. You'll join a small, high-caliber team where your work directly shapes the product and the company's trajectory.
What will you be doing?
Build pipelines that scan open-source security intel (advisories, NVD, vendor feeds), process unstructured text, and extract structured exploitation conditions for each CVE
Design and ship agentic workflows that evaluate whether a CVE is exploitable against a customer's specific resource configuration
Build and iterate on LLM evaluation systems to measure and improve the quality of generated exploitation conditions and agent verdicts
Develop ML models (classifiers, NLP pipelines) that ground and constrain LLM output as real-world telemetry accumulates, replacing free-form guesses with learned, validated structure
Own exploratory R&D end-to-end, from scoping ambiguous problems to shipping production-ready solutions, and collaborate with the team to productize results
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What does this Defendermate role pay? +
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Yes, the listing is remote. US or Canada-based, fully remote.
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