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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Greylock Partners
Redwood, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/5/2026

Early-stage, cybersecurity investment (valued over $100M at Seed), founded by a successful serial entrepreneur, is looking to hire a Founding MLE with a strong background standing up training/inference pipelines in the cloud (GCP/AWS), good MLOps familiarity, and full end-to-end ownership.


Summary:

Help architect the core ML pipelines and codebase for an industry-first solution in security. Our ideal candidate will be able to take research-grade ML experiments and ensure they can be run in a stable and repeatable manner in the enterprise.


Key Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in CS (or a related field) with 4 years industry experience and 1 years working with LLM's in a large-scale production environment
  • Prior experience with a zero-to-one
  • Proven ability to collaborate across different teams and adapt to new fields


Model Training Responsibilities:

  • Design and train machine learning models from scratch, developing and testing new architectures on large, complex datasets
  • Build and optimize end-to-end training pipelines, including data preprocessing, distributed training, and experiment tracking
  • Tune and evaluate model performance through systematic experimentation, hyperparameter optimization, and metric analysis
  • Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to manage compute resources, ensure reproducibility, and prepare models for deployment


Please note:


There are no fees associated with any of the support we provide our investments. Greylock Talent provides free candidate referrals/introductions to all of our active investments (one of the many services we provide).


Due to the volume of applicants we typically receive, a follow-up email will not be sent unless a match is identified.

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