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Senior AI Engineer

NextDeavor


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 150000 - 220000
Posted: 26 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 23 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior AI Engineer
Full-time
Remote
Exclusive confidential search details shared with qualified applicants.
Become a Key Player as a Senior AI Engineer

You will help build and advance autonomous offensive security agents and the models that power them delivering capabilities that improve exploit chaining multimodal vision mobile coverage and customer-facing accuracy. You will collaborate with engineering and platform stakeholders to ship production-grade systems and run in EST hours as a remote contributor.

Heres How Youll Make an Impact on the Team
  • Design implement and iterate on named agents including orchestration patterns hand-offs planning loops tool use and shared memory
  • Contribute to model training and fine-tuning across data curation supervised fine-tuning (SFT) preference optimization (DPO/GRPO/RLHF-style) and evaluation
  • Extend the co-evolutionary self-training (Javelin) loop so the system improves from its engagements
  • Build self-improvement systems (false-positive detection tiered skill learning agent directives code-patch proposals) and pipelines for human approval
  • Design security-specific evaluations covering OWASP Top 10 exploit chaining finding accuracy and agent reliability; track performance over model and agent changes
  • Contribute to multimodal (vision) and mobile (iOS/Android) coverage and BYOK support efforts
  • Own production reliability: latency cost observability failure-mode analysis and Kubernetes-based deployment
  • Improve customer-facing accuracy surfaces and live accuracy gauges exposed to customers
Heres What Youll Need to Be Successful in This Role
  • 5 years building production ML/AI systems including at least 2 years working directly on LLMs or LLM-powered agents
  • Deep Python and strong production engineering practices (testing code review observability)
  • Hands-on fine-tuning experience: SFT preference optimization (DPO GRPO RLHF/RLAIF) data curation and synthetic data generation
  • Strong grasp of transformer architectures and training stack (PyTorch Hugging Face DeepSpeed or FSDP accelerate)
  • Experience designing and shipping multi-agent or tool-using LLM systems in production
  • Rigorous evaluation design experience: building harnesses tracking experiments and data-driven decision making
  • Inference optimization experience (vLLM TensorRT-LLM quantization throughput/latency tradeoffs)
  • Familiarity with retrieval pipelines vector stores and structured memory for agents
  • Kubernetes and containerized deployment fluency
  • Genuine interest in offensive security and the ability to ramp quickly on OWASP Top 10 API/web/mobile pentesting concepts
Heres What Else Might Help You Out
  • Offensive security certifications or experience (OSCP/OSWE/OSWA CTF bug bounty red team)
  • Research publications at top ML/security venues or open source contributions to agent/LLM tooling
  • Experience with adversarial ML or red-teaming AI systems
  • Familiarity with mobile app reverse engineering or binary analysis
Pay Range

$150 - $220K/year

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Required Experience:

Senior IC


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