We are building a new capability that turns fragmented, noisy security logs into explainable, AI-powered threat analysis, delivered inside the RedMimicry platform.
As Senior AI/ML Engineer at RedMimicry, you will lead the applied AI/ML work behind new analysis capabilities for our breach and attack emulation platform. The core challenge is extracting useful structure from heterogeneous, partially unstructured security telemetry and relating it to known attacker activity.
The problem is broader than prompt engineering. You will determine where LLMs, embeddings, retrieval, learned ranking, and deterministic heuristics are justified. The standard is measurable improvement against reproducible baselines, not architectural fashion. Everything you build must operate under realistic latency, reliability, and deployment constraints.
What You’ll Do
- Develop Security-Log Parsing Methods: Design and implement methods for extracting typed events from heterogeneous SIEM, EDR, NDR, operating-system, and network telemetry.
- Design Embeddings and Retrieval: Select, evaluate, and tune representations and retrieval methods for security events.
- Handle Ambiguity Explicitly: Implement confidence scoring, calibration, and controlled treatment of ambiguous evidence.
- Ground Results in Evidence: Ensure that results are supported by traceable evidence from the original telemetry.
- Build Rigorous Evaluations: Define datasets, baselines, ablations, and metrics, and analyse failure modes systematically.
- Optimise Inference: Make the pipeline practical for cloud operation and on-premises deployment.
- Productise the Research: Work with backend, integration, and offensive-security engineers to turn experimental methods into maintainable services.
- Document the Work: Produce clear experiment records, architecture decisions, and technical reports.
- Contribute to Academic Research: Contribute, at minimum as a co-author, to an academic research paper published in the context of the project.
Skills
You do not need to meet every requirement to apply. We care more about demonstrated depth, sound experimental judgement, and the ability to ship reliable systems than about a specific academic title.
- Machine Learning and LLM Systems
- Strong Python programming skills
- Practical experience with PyTorch or a comparable framework
- Experience with open-weight language models, structured outputs, embeddings, or retrieval systems
- Experience with fine-tuning, PEFT, quantisation, model serving, or inference optimisation
- Understanding of hallucination, calibration, distribution shift, and model failure analysis
- Information Retrieval and Evaluation
- Semantic retrieval, ranking, classification, or information extraction
- Approximate nearest-neighbour search and vector indices
- Evaluation using metrics such as Recall@K, MRR, F1, exact match, calibration, and ablation studies
- Dataset construction, partitioning, and reproducible benchmarking
- Software Engineering
- Ability to turn experimental code into maintainable production components
- Testing, profiling, observability, and performance analysis
- Experience working with APIs, distributed services, and containerised environments
- Cybersecurity Knowledge
- Security logs, SIEM, EDR, NDR, detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting are strong advantages
- Understanding of endpoint, process, identity, and network telemetry is a plus
- Research Background
- MSc, PhD, or equivalent practical research experience in computer science, machine learning, data science, mathematics, or a related field
- Ability to read, reproduce, and critically evaluate current research
- Languages
- English (required)
- German (a plus)
Other Requirements
- Existing legal right to work in Germany and primary residence in Germany
- Clean criminal record certificate
- Willingness to travel to the Berlin office approximately once per month
Ready to Apply?
We’d love to hear from you! Send your CV (and any additional materials you’d like us to see) to jobs@redmimicry.com.
If you have questions about the role or application process, don’t hesitate to reach out. We look forward to your application!
