Careers at PatternEx

Are you the smartest person in the room?

Want to try a new room? 

PatternEx is a cutting-edge security startup looking for AI/machine learning/analytics/big-data experts. Interested in developing an Artificial Intelligence platform to prevent the next big cybercrime?

Company Overview:

PatternEx is a startup, backed by Khosla Ventures, developing a scalable, human-assisted Artificial Intelligence platform for InfoSec. The solution mimics human InfoSec analysts; it essentially creates an army of virtual analysts that can recognize malicious attacks with human-like levels of accuracy. 

Our core team is comprised of architects with a history of designing category-leading products and research scientists from MIT’s CSAIL lab. We are looking to hire engineers and UI experts who are passionate about building large-scale systems for data analysis and machine learning.

PatternEx offers competitive compensation packages and employee benefits including:  health, dental, vision, 401(K) & stock options plans. PatternEx is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Current Openings include:

• Data Pipeline Engineer

• Senior UI Engineer

• Deep Learning Expert

• Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

See below for details. To apply, send your resume to careers@patternex.com.

Current Openings

Data Pipeline Engineer

Be on the leading edge of applying machine learning and data modeling to the world of cyber security. As part of the product development team, you will directly impact the product by developing core algorithms to model complex problems.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Design systems that reliably transport and process billions of events per day that arrive at network speed
• Implement systems that handle scale in a VM/container environment
• Provide real-time streaming and querying capability on a large volume of data
• Guide our data scientists, and engineers to build and optimize data pipelines
• Apply a lambda architecture for threat prediction and model creation
• Incorporate cutting edge Machine Learning Algorithms to the data pipeline

Required experience:

• 5 years' experience building large-scale data pipelines
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and information retrieval
• 3 years’ experience developing data pipelines using NoSQL such as Cassandra, Druid etc.
• Software development experience in Spark
• Experience working with Kafka
• Passionate about learning new technologies and solving hard problems
• Team player with excellent communication skills     

Contact us at careers@patternex.com.

Senior UI Engineer

Design world class data visualizations in clean, modern designs. Your work will help the InfoSec analyst detect threats more quickly.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Concept and implement the visual language of Patternex. 
• Create and advance style guides pertinent to visualizations of a threat landscape.
• Create prototypes which communicate the vision for an end product to executives and clients.
• Partner with the platform engineers in the process of defining the RESTful API
• Creating custom, general use modules and components which extend the elements and modules of core React framework
• Analyze performance of the user interface and recommend specific changes to improve user experience.

Required experience:

• 10+ years of development experience developing production grade User Interfaces
• Knowledge of React and Node practices and commonly used modules based on extensive work experience
• Has an expert understanding of as many of the following areas as possible: CSS, HTML, Javascript
• Experience developing software for enterprise and/or cloud based deployments
• Experience working in a multi-site development team
• Passionate about learning new technologies and solving hard problems
• Team player with excellent communication skills

Contact us at careers@patternex.com.

Be on the leading edge of applying deep learning in the cyber security domain. As part of the development and research teams, you will directly impact the product by developing core algorithms to model complex problems. 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Prototyping, implementation, and validation of deep learning models to detect malicious behaviors
• Development of end-to-end data science applications, covering data ingestion and preprocessing, feature learning and/or engineering, data modeling, and model deployment.

Required experience:

• Proven expertise with deep learning, including one or more of the following: convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, usage of long short term memories.
• Development of end-to-end data science applications, covering data ingestion and preprocessing, feature engineering, data modeling, and model deployment.
• Expertise with machine learning and statistical methods. 
• Strong CS fundamentals, including good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• MS/PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics or related discipline

Desired Experience:

• Led projects involving deep learning.
• Led data science projects involving transactional datasets.
• Expertise handling large unstructured datasets.
• Experience working in a software development team
• Distributed systems development using Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, etc.
• Python, Unix/Linux
• Experience with developing on AWS.

Contact us at careers@patternex.com. 

Platform/Infrastructure Engineer

This role will have a significant impact. As a member of the engineering team, you will deploy the first AI platform for InfoSec in a variety of customer enviroments.  

Specific responsibilities include:

• Build scalable and robust distributed components and services
• Define VM/Docker templates
• Orchestrate VMs/Containers in a cluster
• Implement infrastructure to monitor, manage VMs/containers remotely
• Implement infrastructure to monitor processes within VMs
• Implement services around authentication, resizing, notification, and configuration of a cluster of VMs/Containers
• Verify the deployment of such services and infrastructure

Required experience:

• 4-5 years of experience in distributed systems management
• Software deployment and maintenance experience with Cassandra, Spark, Kafka
  
• Experience with Marathon/Zookeeper
• Strong scripting skills preferably in Python
• Experience with microservice based architectures
• Passionate about learning new technologies and solving hard problems
• Team player with excellent communication skills

Contact us at careers@patternex.com