AI/ML Engineer

RegScale is a continuous controls monitoring (CCM) platform purpose-built to deliver fast and efficient GRC outcomes. We help organizations break out of the slow and expensive realities that plague legacy GRC tools by bridging security, risk, and compliance through controls lifecycle management. By leveraging CCM, organizations experience massive process improvements like 90% faster certification times, and 60% less audit prep time. Today’s expansive security and compliance requirements can only be met with a modern, CCM based approach, and RegScale is the leader in that space.   

Position:

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a critical position in an innovative startup that is disrupting the compliance industry? We are actively seeking a creative problem solver to serve as an AI/ML engineer, accelerating our extreme automation capabilities. If you have a passion for data science, love solving complex problems, and are excited about the idea of working in a fast-paced startup then we would love to meet you. This position will play a key role in delivering our AI roadmap and enhancing the return on investment for our customers. We recognize that skilled engineers are critical to our company’s success, and we have offered a generous compensation package that includes a competitive base salary with significant stock options to help us recruit the most exceptional talent.

Position must be a US Citizen and is subject to a background check and unannounced drug testing requirements. Hybrid position with periodic trips to the office for strategy and design sessions with the team. We know how valuable your creativity and leadership skills are to our company’s success, and we offer an exceptional salary and benefits package commensurate with the responsibilities of the position. If you’re ready to work on the most cutting-edge data engineering challenges, we are excited to have you on our team.

Required Skills:

• Expert with prompt engineering and tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for application specific use case
• Expert with Python scripting for data science related work and building models
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and Javascript driven frameworks to integrate AI solutions and models into application code
• Experience in delivering secure code as part of a software development lifecycle
• Experience working with large data sets, generating synthetic data, and deriving models and predictive algorithms
• Experience with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to optimize AI use cases and expand context windows
• Deep understanding of data science, linear algebra, algorithms, and statistics
• Familiarity with DevOps approaches such as Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with Linux and other Command Line Interfaces (CLIs) technologies
• Willingness to participate in and learn from our Agile Project Management and Scrum processes while operating in a geographically distributed project environment

Activities:

• Discuss, Develop, Communicate, & Lead Regscale's ML strategy, including internal and core product usage.
• Stay up-to-date on state-of-the-art AI/ML advances which may have impact on Regscale's internal and core products.
• Develop Cutting-Edge New AI/ML-enabled Product features
• Improve AI/ML adoption for RegScale customers throughout our platform
• Develop Testing & Validation Toolsets for Ensuring Compliance-Specific AI/ML technologies are performing accurately
• Develop Regscale's internal toolset for working with machine learning systems, including but not limited to: Large Language Models, Document Clustering Algorithms, Image Segmentation & Classification Algorithms
• Develop new ML Models based on Regscale’s proprietary datasets, providing a competitive moat in the market
• Develop new tools and subsystems to integrate ML technologies into Regscale's core product
• Develop differentiated features and models that increase our AI market lead in the Risk and Compliance industry
• Write content for AI/ML technical blog posts, research papers, and patents for Regscale, demonstrating Regscale's prowess in AI/ML adoption for hiring, investing, and customer enjoyment reasons
• Work with vendors, contractors, and Cloud providers to access and deploy state of the art AI/ML models
• Perform scheduled jobs to update and enrich or generate synthetic data
• Support containerized workloads in the RegScale SaaS environment
• Deliver assigned user stories while working in an Agile Project management environment
• Self-starter who will continuously learn and develop
• Develop technical documentation in Markdown language or within Wikis
• Delivering on schedule for assigned customer deliverables

Education/Training, Qualifications, and Certification:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar technical/engineering degree and 5 years experience, or
• Minimum of Master’s Degree in Computer Science or similar technical/engineering degree with 3 years of professional experience
• Non-degree - minimum of 15 years experience in IT with direct and extensive Python, AI, and ML development experience and related certifications in data engineering and/or data science
• Strong written and verbal communication skills while being a team player
• Ideal candidate will AI and Data Science related certifications
• Must be a US Citizen and capable of passing a background check and random periodic drug testing