Senior Machine Learning Engineer (REMOTE)

About SailPoint:

SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce and ensuring that workers have the right access to do their job—no more and no less.

Built on a foundation of AI and ML our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale velocity and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented modern enterprise.

About the Role

As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer you will play a critical role in shaping building and scaling SailPoint’s AI-powered capabilities. You’ll work at the intersection of AI innovation software engineering and platform architecture—designing robust production-grade ML systems that deliver customer insights and intelligent automation across our identity platform.

You will lead complex end-to-end ML initiatives—from model design and experimentation to deployment monitoring and continuous improvement

About the team:

The AI team at SailPoint applies AI and domain expertise to create AI solutions that solve real problems in identity security. We believe the path to success is through meaningful customer outcomes and we leverage classical ML as well as recent innovations in Generative AI and Graph ML to bring our solutions to SailPoint’s core product lines.

Responsibilities

• Design experiment with and implement ML models to solve complex identity security challenges.

• Take ownership of research and prototyping efforts in areas like embeddings representation learning and similarity measurement.

• Translate AI research and prototypes into practical effective and production-ready systems.

• Drive improvements in model accuracy precision/recall and generalization for your projects.

• Implement and advocate for best practices in ML engineering testing and architecture.

• Communicate complex ML concepts and project updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Partner with product managers to scope and deliver high-impact AI capabilities.

• Work cross-functionally with platform and analytics teams to ensure your components integrate seamlessly into SailPoint’s ecosystem.

• Contribute to our model lifecycle management AI governance and responsible AI practices.

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of professional experience in a technical field with a focus on machine learning.

• Proven experience applying modeling techniques such as anomaly detection semantic search embeddings or similarity measurement to real-world applications.

• Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency with ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow or scikit-learn.

• Solid understanding of data modeling feature engineering and statistical analysis.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team.

• Strong foundation in software engineering best practices: testing modularization code review and observability.

• Good knowledge of MLOps practices—including model monitoring retraining and CI/CD.

Preferred

• Experience in cybersecurity identity or enterprise SaaS systems.

• Expertise in at least one of our core modeling areas: NLP Behavioral Modeling or Graph ML.

• Experience owning the technical design and delivery of complex ML components or features.

• Hands-on experience building and deploying ML models in a cloud-native environment.

Roadmap for success- 

30 days: 

• Build a strong understanding of SailPoint’s AI vision architecture and current ML initiatives.

• Learn existing data pipelines environments and model deployment frameworks.

• Establish working relationships with key partners across AI platform DevOps and product teams.

• Review current ML models data flows and monitoring systems to identify optimization opportunities.

• Contribute to initial improvements or bug fixes to gain familiarity with production workflows.

90 days: 

• Contribute to at least one end-to-end ML initiative or pilot supporting improvements in performance reliability or scalability.

• Participate in model evaluation and analysis helping to identify gaps edge cases or areas for feature and data improvements to support robust production performance.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve scalability reduce technical debt or enhance ML capabilities.

6 months: 

• Deliver a significant improvement to a core AI product’s performance scalability or reliability.

• Contribute to the design or enhancement of a reusable ML component (e.g. inference service feature store or monitoring framework).

• Be recognized as a key contributor and technical resource for ML engineering within the AI team.

1 year: 

• Help establish a robust scalable ML foundation across multiple AI initiatives.

• Deliver one or more high-impact ML solutions from concept to production.

• Mentor and elevate peers through collaboration and knowledge sharing.

The Tech Stack (if applicable): 

• Core Programming: SQL Python Shell/Bash Go 

• Cloud Platform: AWS (SageMaker Bedrock)

• Data: Snowflake DBT Kafka Airflow Feast 

• Visualization: Tableau Qlik

• CI/CD: Cloudbees Jenkins 

Benefits and Compensation listed vary based on the location of your employment and the nature of your employment with SailPoint.

As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission along with potential eligibility for equity participation. SailPoint maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge skills experience market conditions and locations as well as reflect SailPoint’s differing products industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. We estimate the base salary for US-based employees will be in this range from (min-mid-max USD):

Base salaries for employees based in other locations are competitive for the employee’s home location.

Benefits Overview

1. Health and wellness coverage: Medical dental and vision insurance

2. Disability coverage: Short-term and long-term disability

3. Life protection: Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)

4. Additional life coverage options: Supplemental life insurance for employees spouses and children

5. Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care; limited purpose flexible spending account

6. Financial security: 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching

7. Time off benefits: Flexible vacation policy

8. Holidays: 8 paid holidays annually

9. Sick leave

10. Parental support: Paid parental leave

11. Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors

12. Voluntary benefits: Legal Assistance Critical Illness Accident Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options

13. Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution

SailPoint is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome all qualified candidates to apply to join our team.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.  

Alternative methods of applying for employment are available to individuals unable to submit an application through this site because of a disability. Contact [email protected] or mail to 11120 Four Points Dr Suite 100 Austin TX 78726 to discuss reasonable accommodations.  NOTE: Any unsolicited resumes sent by candidates or agencies to this email will not be considered for current openings at SailPoint.

What We Do

At SailPoint we believe enterprise security must start with identity at the foundation. Today’s enterprise runs on a diverse workforce of not just human but also digital identities—and securing them all is critical. Through the lens of identity SailPoint empowers organizations to seamlessly manage and secure access to applications and data at speed and scale. Our unified intelligent and extensible platform delivers identity-first security helping enterprises defend against dynamic threats while driving productivity and transformation. Trusted by many of the world’s most complex organizations SailPoint secures the modern enterprise.

Why Work With Us

Together we’re redefining identity’s place in the security ecosystem. We love taking on new challenges that seem daunting to others. We hold ourselves to the highest standards and deliver upon our promises to our customers. We bring out the best in each other and we’re having a lot of fun doing it.

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