About This Job

Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.

Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many others.

At Nightfall AI, we’re building the future of data security with machine learning at its core. Our AI systems detect and prevent data leaks in real time for leading organizations.

We’re looking for a motivated, highly talented, recent graduate to join our AI Engineering team. You’ll work with world-class engineers to design and enhance the AI models that power our security products. Learn how to build and scale the underlying system that hosts these models.

If you love solving hard problems, experimenting with the NLP model architectures, latest LLMs, eager to dive deep into the internals of the underlying systems, and ultimately make a real impact — this is your chance to jump in early and grow fast.

💡 What You’ll Do

• Build and ship the AI systems that power Nightfall’s Security products.

• Work hands-on with Python to analyze data, experiment with new natural language model architectures, perform prompt and context engineering on LLMs, benchmark and monitor model accuracy, deploy models into production for real-time inferencing to support various use cases.

• Work hands-on with Go to build the microservices that ingest and process data at scale through the use of streaming infrastructure, distributed caching, and highly concurrent execution.

• Collaborate across engineering and product to turn ideas into live AI features

• Participate in the team's oncall rotation to help drive operational excellence

🎯 You’re a Great Fit If You:

• Are graduating with a BS/MS in Computer Science with rigorous coursework in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Applied Math or related field with excellent grades.

• Code fluently in Python, and Go (or C++ or Java) with a solid understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms.

• Carried out research projects or internships to solve complex problems in Natural Language Processing via the use of transformer models, LLMs or other deep learning models.

• Thrive in fast-moving, high-ownership environments.

• Are excited to learn from experienced mentors and level up quickly.

• Have authorization to work in the US.

⚡ Bonus Points For:

• Hands-on experience with training Pytorch, Spacy or Hugging face models.

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP and experience with systems such as Kafka, Redis, Postgres, etc.

• Hackathon wins, research papers, or open-source contributions.

🌟 Why Nightfall

• Work with a tight-knit team of AI/ML builders who ship fast and mentor deeply.

• Get hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI systems at scale.

• See your models make an immediate impact in real-world security applications.

• Hybrid schedule (3 days in-office) working out of our Palo Alto headquarters right in the heart of Silicon Valley.

If you’re ready to go beyond theory and build AI that matters — come join Nightfall.

Environment

Nightfall AI takes pride in being an equal-opportunity employer. We value a diverse and global talent pool and the collaboration that results from having a diverse and inclusive team. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Our hiring decisions are based exclusively on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

Position Name

AI/ML Engineer (Recent Grad)

Compensation

Employee compensation will be determined based on interview performance, level of experience, specialization of skills, and market rate. During the offer discussion, your recruiter will review the finalized base salary, bonus (for applicable roles), benefits & perks, and stock options as they’ll be reflected in the offer letter.