Director of AI/ML
TENEX.AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Set Technical Strategy & Vision: Oversee the design and architecture of scalable, reliable, and secure systems that power our autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows.
- Design & Build the AI Layer: Power autonomous detection, RAG-backed investigation, and auto-remediation workflows.
- Develop and Productionize: large-scale LLMs, graph-based reasoning engines, and streaming feature pipelines that operate on billions of security events.
- Own Evaluation & Reliability: AI systems—from prompt libraries and fine tuning to red-team testing, latency budgets, and fallback strategies.
- Lead & Mentor Engineering Teams: Manage multiple team leads and a diverse cohort of engineers. Drive a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement. Mentor & grow a cohort of AI engineers; run design reviews, uphold code quality, and instill a security-first mindset.
- Drive Execution & Delivery: Execute and drive complex software projects across the full stack, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery while managing technical debt and balancing immediate needs with long-term architectural health.
- Own Operational Excellence & Reliability: Establish best practices for system monitoring, performance, accessibility, and security in production environments operating on billions of security events.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Product Management, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to define the product roadmap, translate business needs into technical requirements, and ensure technical investments align with customer value. Partner tightly with Product, Detection Engineering, and Customer Success to translate real-world attacker behavior into robust ML and rule-based detections.
- Foster Innovation: Identify and drive the adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and engineering methodologies. Push the frontier—experiment with retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling agents, and multi-modal models (text + logs + graphs) to maintain a competitive advantage and keep our defenders decisively ahead.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive experience in software development, including 3+ years managing multiple engineering teams
- Proven track record of defining and executing technical roadmaps, managing budgets, and scaling engineering organizations in a high-growth environment
- Expertise in engineering best practices, agile methodologies, SDLC, and driving organizational process improvements.
- Deep technical expertise in designing and engineering scalable, distributed, and production-grade systems using modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Rust, Java, or TypeScript)
- 10+ years of experience in software development, engineering production systems using modern programming languages (Python, Go, Rust, or Java)
- Deep understanding of microservices architecture, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and event-driven systems
- Strong fundamentals in API design (REST/gRPC), data modeling, and database technologies (SQL/NoSQL)
- Experience with large-scale data processing, analytics, and high-volume transaction systems
- Deep knowledge of LLM architecture, prompt engineering, and Vector database workflows.
- Hands-on experience building agents, orchestration frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, Agno AGI, or custom), and evaluation harnesses.
- Prior work in cybersecurity (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, or MDR) or a related domain
- Experience with graph databases or security-focused knowledge graphs
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure security (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and DevOps practices
- Experience leading engineering efforts for both backend services and complex single-page applications (SPAs) or data visualization tools.
- Background leading teams in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
- Exceptional communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to articulate technical strategy to executive leadership and external stakeholders.
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills to solve complex business and technical problems.
- Proven ability to mentor, inspire, and grow senior technical talent and leadership within the organization.
- A strong passion for cybersecurity and a commitment to building security-first systems and automation.
Benefits
- WFH on Fridays
- competitive compensation package
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonGoRustJavaTypeScriptmicroservices architecturecontainerizationAPI designdata modelingLLM architecture
Soft Skills
communication skillspresentation skillsnegotiation skillsstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsmentoringleadershipcollaborationaccountabilitycontinuous improvement