Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

About Zscaler

Zscaler accelerates digital transformation so our customers can be more agile efficient resilient and secure. Our cloud native Zero Trust Exchange platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users devices and applications in any location.

Here impact in your role matters more than title and trust is built on results. We believe in transparency and value constructive honest debatewere focused on getting to the best ideas faster. We build high-performing teams that can make an impact quickly and with high quality. To do this we are building a culture of execution centered on customer obsession collaboration ownership and accountability.

We value high-impact high-accountability with a sense of urgency where youre enabled to do your best work and embrace your potential. If youre driven by purpose thrive on solving complex challenges and want to make a positive difference on a global scale we invite you to bring your talents to Zscaler and help shape the future of cybersecurity.

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Were looking for an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Shared Platform Services. Reporting to the Director Engineering; youll be responsible for:

• Architecting building and maintaining robust large-scale distributed systems to support the entire ML pipeline on the client side including data collection feature engineering model training model evaluation model deployment and real-time serving
• Developing functional specifications assess task requirements and scheduling and actively participate in the development debugging and support of client-side ML solutions
• Solving complex real-world business problems by working closely with various stakeholders including data scientists product management and product engineering teams
• Developing implement and optimize C/C code for the efficient execution of machine learning models on client side or server side depending on the use case
• Integrating and running various machine learning models on client platforms ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization

What Were Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer including 3 years of ML platform engineer with a focus on client-side development.
• Experience in C/C programming for high-performance applications
• Good understanding of Windows OS and experience building applications on Windows OS using Visual Studio
• Experience with ONNX runtime for optimizing and deploying machine learning models
• Experience with SLM models and running different ML models on client-side environments

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Strong experience with LLMs agent architectures and prompt engineering
• Strong experience with algorithms and programming skills in building out data collection/processing infrastructure Machine Learning model training and serving platforms on client devices
• Advanced degree or certifications in Machine Learning

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