Principal Software Engineer, Endpoint AI Framework

CrowdStrike

full-time

Posted on: 9/18/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $195,000 - $290,000 per year

Lead

Cyber SecurityDistributed SystemsLinuxMacOS

About the role

Work with stakeholders in data science, endpoint engineering, and product groups to define the capabilities for a next generation endpoint AI framework for our falcon sensor.
Lead development of that framework as an individual contributor; architect; and thought leader.
Lead technology direction for a highly performant and cross platform model delivery framework.
Design interfaces which our models will use to interact with our falcon sensor, which runs on millions of Windows, Linux, and macOS endpoints worldwide.
Define resource utilization limits and optimize solutions to provide AI powered security on the endpoint while maintaining our agent’s lightweight footprint.
Define approaches for testing (efficacy, regression, performance).
Define approaches to produce repeatability with testing, while operating with runtime (vs static) data.

Leadership experience developing and delivering ML and AI models.
Understanding of common AI platform technologies, such as ONNX, OpenVino, or others.
Experience working with runtime data and in a high performance environment.
Familiarity with AI hardware acceleration using the NPU or GPU.
Strong endpoint development experience on at least one of our major platforms - Windows, Linux, or macOS endpoints.
Windows platform experience, including kernel development, is preferred but not required.
Strong C/C++ development experience.
Experience with systems level programming.
Ability to work with teams crossing organizational boundaries.
Track record of owning solutions from design phase through post-delivery.
Record of engineering technology leadership.
People management experience is not necessary.
Experience in the security industry is a bonus but is not required.