Applied AI Scientist

Post Date

Aug 21, 2025

Location

San Jose,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

95131
US
Oct 21, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Security Engineering

Req #

HTD-803967

Pay Rate

$225k - $250k (estimate)

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring a Applied AI Scientist to join the team, based out of San Jose, CA. This person will be focused on gathering research dependant on requirments from the customers and figuring out what is the most efficient way to automate their issues using LLMs. This person will spend about 75% of their time researching areas like vulnerability management, CVE databases, and SIEM logs, and 2025% coding in Python to prototype and connect tools for the engineering team. They will work with existing LLMs and vector databases (e.g., LangChain, ChromaDB, MosaicML) to configure secure solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience in a security firm or on a security-focused team, are self-driven researchers, and can bridge AI with cybersecurity.

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Required Skills & Experience

-8 years experience as a Cyber Security Engineer, with hands-on experience in security research, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, red teaming, or detection engineering
-Experience working with LLMs, using them to solve cybersecurity challenges
-Experience with retrieval tools such as LangChain, and ChromaDB
-Experience using Fine-tuning techniques and tools including LoRA, QLoRA, DeepSpeed-Chat / TRL, OpenAI Fine-Tuning API, MosaicML Platform
-Experience using LLM Agent frameworks such as LangChain Agents, AutoGPT, Microsoft AutoGen, HuggingGPT, CrewAI
-Experience using optimization tools such as Quantization, FlashAttention, Distillation, DeepSpeed-Inference / FasterTransformer

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.