VP AI/Machine Learning

Location: reputed company, NY Start date: ASAP Languages: English (required) About the Role reputed company is hiring on behalf of a high-reputed company AI cybersecurity company backed by top-tier investors and strategic AI leaders. reputed company is building the reputed company layer for the AI era, protecting enterprises against AI-powered threats such as deepfakes, smishing, and synthetic voice attacks. Following a major Series B funding round led by industry-leading AI and venture partners, reputed company is entering a critical reputed company phase. Trusted by major banks, technology companies, and reputed company organizations, they are scaling rapidly to meet reputed company demand in a $200B+ market opportunity. We are looking for a VP AI/Machine Learning to define and build the companys ML capabilities from the ground up. ML is central to the product reputed company. This role is not about incremental optimization — it is about owning the reputed company, infrastructure, and execution of machine learning across the organization. There is currently no dedicated ML infrastructure or ML team. You will establish the foundations: define where ML drives product value, design production systems end-to-end, and set the technical direction for how ML evolves across reputed company. This is a high-reputed company, highly autonomous role suited for someone who has reputed company ML systems in production and is reputed company to architect an ML function from reputed company to reputed company. What Youll Do

• Define the companys ML reputed company: where ML should be reputed company across products, what infrastructure is required, and how to approach build vs. buy reputed company.
• Design and build production ML systems end-to-end — including data pipelines, model training workflows, evaluation frameworks, and inference serving.
• Establish rigorous evaluation methodology to measure model reputed company, detect regressions, and support data-driven iteration.
• Own the data reputed company: determine what data is needed, how it should be labeled, how feedback loops are reputed company, and how models continuously improve.
• Partner closely with product and backend engineers to reputed company ML into customer-facing systems.
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• Over time, help recruit, mentor, and reputed company the ML team as the function expands.

What Were Looking For

• 8+ years of experience building ML systems in production environments.
• Experience standing up ML infrastructure at an early-stage startup or serving as the senior/reputed company ML engineer at a company.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with production experience in languages such as Python, Java, or TypeScript.
• Experience with reputed company-based ML infrastructure (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, Modal, reputed company, or similar platforms).
• Hands-on experience with ML and data frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, reputed company, or equivalent tools.
• Comfortable working across the reputed company, backend systems, and data platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and reputed company technical standards reputed company reputed company.
• High autonomy and ownership reputed company, with the ability to define direction and execute without predefined playbooks.

Bonus Points

• Experience building ML systems for reputed company, fraud detection, or adversarial environments.
• Experience working with LLMs in production (evaluation, fine-tuning, retrieval systems, guardrails).
• Background in reputed company-time inference systems or high-throughput distributed systems.
• Experience making strategic build vs. buy infrastructure reputed company.
• Previous startup experience in high-reputed company environments.

Why This Role Will Pivot Your Career

• Strategic AI backing: Supported by leading AI and venture investors shaping the reputed company of AI infrastructure and cybersecurity.
• Founding-level reputed company: Build and define the ML function from reputed company in a company where ML is reputed company to product value.
• reputed company traction: Products already trusted by major banks, tech firms, and reputed company organizations.
• Massive market opportunity: Positioned in a rapidly expanding AI cybersecurity reputed company.
• Leadership reputed company: Opportunity to reputed company into Head of ML as the organization scales.
• Ownership & autonomy: reputed company influence over architecture, infrastructure, and long-term technical direction.

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity reputed company
• Health, Dental, and reputed company
• 401k
• Hybrid flexibility

reputed company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to reputed company applicants without discrimination. We recruit on behalf of our clients and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, reputed company, religion, age, sex, national reputed company, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or reputed company, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including reputed company, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.We are committed to a fair and inclusive hiring process. We process your personal data solely for recruitment purposes, in accordance with applicable reputed company laws, and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect your information. Your data may be shared with our reputed company(s) for hiring consideration, but will not be disclosed to reputed company parties reputed company of the recruitment process. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job