Staff Machine Learning Engineer (SecureAI)

Join Okta, a leading identity and access management company, as a Staff Machine Learning Engineer. In this role, you will work on advancing Okta's authorization capabilities by implementing dynamic AI security mechanisms. You will be responsible for real-time threat inspection, agent intent evaluation, and behavioral analysis. You will also architect scalable ML and Generative AI systems, optimize workflows for accuracy and efficiency, and build automated evaluation pipelines. This position offers work-from-home opportunities, health and wellness benefits, financial benefits, and more.

Contribuer à l'avancement des capacités d'autorisation d'Okta en remplaçant les systèmes statiques par des mécanismes de sécurité dynamiques basés sur l'IA.

Exposure to ethical AI, model risk, or compliance frameworks

Familiarity with evaluation datasets, synthetic data generation, or LLM-as-a-judge methods

Responsibilities

• Mettre en œuvre l'application de l'application basée sur l'intention pour vérifier que les demandes d'exécution des agents correspondent à leur objectif prévu.
• Architecturer des systèmes ML et d'IA générative évolutifs intégrant des pipelines de récupération, d'inférence et d'évaluation.
• Hands-on experience with modern Generative AI platforms (AWS Bedrock, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
• Deep understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and knowledge-base workflows
• Familiarity with ML frameworks (FastAPI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark ML) and workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, etc.)

Requirements

• Experience building tools or infrastructure for AI/ML applications, with a deep understanding of the developer lifecycle in an AI-native world
• Proven ability to collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive greenfield initiatives forward, navigate unknowns, and iterate quickly and frequently
• Education:Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience defining evaluation metrics, pipelines, and feedback loops for ML/GenAI systems
• 8+ years of software development experience, with strong programming expertise in Python (and familiarity with Go or Typescript a plus)
• Hands-on experience with applied machine learning, from feature engineering to training and fine-tuning models

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with LiteLLM, LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP, or other related AI agent frameworks
• Experience integrating AI-driven systems with identity, authentication, or security products