Staff/Senior Staff Engineer, AI Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Develop the next generation of security solutions at Aegis.

• Transform extensive volumes of noisy security data into high-confidence detections.

• Contribute to and influence model development.

• Comprehend evolving behavioral patterns among users and organizations.

• Transition detection concepts from prototypes to dependable production systems.

• Assess system accuracy through evaluation systems and feedback mechanisms in production.

• Create systems that balance latency, precision, reliability, privacy, cost, and customer trust.

• Collaborate across detection systems, distributed infrastructure, product surfaces, and AI inference.

• Take ownership of the journey from raw data to visible security decisions for customers.

• Deliver code, grasp system functionalities, set technical direction, and build credibility through effective execution.

• Lead projects and engineers, manage segments of the technical roadmap, engage in hiring, and contribute to team operations as the scope expands.

⛳️ Requirements

• Staff-level technical expertise or equivalent experience in leading technically complex systems and teams.

• Proven experience in building production systems where false positives, correctness, reliability, or risk were critical.

• Capability to navigate between architecture and implementation.

• Comfort in making decisions with limited information and adapting them as new data arises.

• Skill in prioritizing multiple significant issues.

• Ability to convey technical decisions clearly in written form.

• Capacity to enhance the effectiveness of other engineers, regardless of formal management experience.

• Aspiration for considerably greater responsibility than currently available.

• Bonus: Background in security detection, fraud, abuse, adversarial systems, behavioral or anomaly detection, data-intensive distributed systems, production LLM decision-making, ML/AI evaluation systems and labeled datasets, enterprise security products or integrations, early product adoption, or early-stage engineering teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Significant opportunity for leadership growth as the scope expands.

• High level of autonomy accompanied by corresponding responsibilities.

• Unique ownership of architecture, product direction, and customer experience.

• Chance to engage in hiring and evolve into formal engineering leadership roles.

• Collaborate with seasoned engineers who have developed defensive systems at a massive scale.

• Rapid iteration and substantial influence over product priorities.

• Opportunity to tackle AI and security challenges with measurable production impact.