Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Location: Sunnyvale, California (5 days in office)

This is a 12 week internship program beginning on May 27th 2025 or June 23rd 2025. This internship is based in Sunnyvale, California, and will require a hybrid work schedule. Please note that we are unable to provide relocation assistance at this time. 

Onwards Together!

Illumio, the pioneer and market leader of Zero Trust segmentation, prevents breaches from becoming cyber disasters. Illumio protects critical applications and valuable digital assets with proven segmentation technology purpose-built for the Zero Trust security model. Illumio ransomware mitigation and segmentation solutions see risk, isolate attacks, and secure data across cloud-native apps, hybrid and multi-clouds, data centers, and endpoints, enabling the world’s leading organizations to strengthen their cyber resiliency and reduce risk.  

Illuminate the future with Illumio and join a team that’s passionate about developing cutting-edge security solutions that protect the world's most critical assets. 

Our Team's Vision:

Illumio's Machine Learning (ML) team embodies a culture of thought leadership, independence, and responsibility, holding a significant and highly visible role within our Engineering division. This dynamic team is tasked with developing state-of-the-art ML solutions for complex cybersecurity challenges. Working directly with the leadership team, the team shapes Illumio's strategic direction and reinforces our leadership in Zero Trust Segmentation. In a world facing some of the greatest cybersecurity threats in history, the impact of our ML team is profound and far-reaching. 
 
We're looking for innovators and engineers who are ready to bring diverse perspectives, innovate relentlessly, and tackle challenging enterprise security issues head-on, leaving a significant mark in the cybersecurity landscape. 

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will be working on training algorithms on large scale data to solve cybersecurity issues faced by businesses of all scales. Your contributions will encompass developing and optimizing open source state-of-the-art algorithms to detect and defend attack vectors Illumio’s Product and Engineering teams to help translate research advances into tangible benefits for our customers. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Study MITRE attack patterns and devise experiments to measure model performance on potential threat detection signals from large-scale data.

• Evaluate and utilize state-of-the-art graph learning, reinforcement learning or deep learning algorithms to generate important insights for users to enforce policies.

• Build end-to-end data and machine learning pipelines to support model training and inference.

• Build deep learning models and leverage graph embedding representations downstream tasks labelling, policy recommendation and anomaly detection. 

Experience:

• You hold a PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field—with deep expertise in areas like generative modeling, AI agents, reinforcement learning, or natural language processing (or have equivalent experience)

• Familiar with modeling graph data and leveraging GNNs/Graph Transformers to generate embeddings, efficient training, fine-tuning, and inference techniques.

• Comprehensive grasp on machine learning fundamentals and deep learning algorithms 
   

Compensation:

$ 47 USD 

The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, location, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and internal equity, alignment with market data, or applicable laws. 

At Illumio we offer a wide range of benefits to our eligible team members. Our benefit programs vary by location and can include Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage – Health and Dependent Savings Accounts – Life and Disability Programs – Paid Parental Leave – Voluntary Benefit Programs – Company Sponsored Wellness Program – Wellness Reimbursement Program - Retirement Savings – Equity Opportunities – Paid time off and Paid Holidays – Employee Incentive Program. #LI-GS1 #LI-HYBRID

Our Commitment: 

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions drives our success and makes us stronger together. We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse culture and emphasizing inclusion and belonging.   

All official job offers from our company are extended directly by our recruitment team and will be sent through an official DocuSign document for your review and signature. Please be aware that we do not ask for any personal information in the process of extending offers of employment, such as financial details or social security numbers. Upon acceptance of any offer, we will request such information as part of the onboarding process prior to or on your first day of employment, and only after completing a background check through an authorized third-party vendor. If you receive any communication asking for personal details outside of these processes, please contact us immediately to verify the authenticity of the request. Your security is important to us, and we are committed to a safe and transparent hiring experience.