AI Engineer

BlackCloak’s mission is to protect corporate executives and high-profile individuals in their personal lives, mitigating risks to their families, companies, reputation, and finances. We defend our clients’ digital lives from hackers, privacy leaks, and identity theft. If you are passionate about helping to protect others, then keep reading - this may be your next great opportunity. 

Are you excited about shaping the future of AI-powered cybersecurity? At BlackCloak, we’re pioneering digital executive protection and we’re looking for a Founding AI Product Engineer to help us build, scale, and innovate.

In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of integrating LLMs (Large Language Models), embeddings, and AI technologies into our core product and business operations. You’ll have the opportunity to experiment, prototype, and influence our AI strategy from the ground up while collaborating with a highly motivated team of engineers, product leaders and security professionals.

What you will do

• Prototype & Experiment: Design and test new AI-driven capabilities, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
• Ship Impactful Features: Work across engineering, operations, product and security teams to deliver AI-powered product features and business workflows.
• Lead AI Innovation: Become the go-to AI expert, continuously learning and educating the team on LLMs, embeddings, and AI advancements.
• Own Technical Direction: Make key decisions on AI infrastructure, architecture, and model deployment.
• Build & Scale Engineering Standards: Establish best practices for AI and software engineering in a high-growth startup environment.

What you need to be successful

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong AI/ML focus.
• Hands-on experience with both paid and open-source LLMs, embeddings, and natural language technologies.
• Deep understanding of data pipeline technologies (Spark, Flink, Kafka, etc.).
• Proficiency in Google Cloud (Vertex AI) or AWS AI/ML technologies.
• Strong foundation in taking AI models from research to production.
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communicator & team player—collaborate with engineers, product and executives.
• Startup experience or an entrepreneurial mindset—a desire to build and innovate!

About BlackCloak

BlackCloak is an extremely fast-growing company in an entirely new product category. We have amazing product fit validated by industry awards and an impressive client base of Fortune 500 companies across all industries. 

BlackCloak offers a competitive salary, exceptional benefits, and a dynamic work environment.  Below is a quick summary of BlackCloak’s generous benefits package for full-time employees includes:

- 100% Remote Company, within the USA

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with 100% employer-paid monthly premiums for employees & 50% employer-paid monthly premiums for dependents. 

- Health Savings Account with company contribution for eligible medical plans.

- Flexible Vacation Plan 

- 10 Paid Company Holidays 

- 100% employer-paid Life, AD&D and Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance

- 401k with Traditional and Roth options, including employer match.

- Company Equity 

- Paid Parental and Pregnancy Recovery Leave

- Company and team off-sites and virtual events throughout the year 

- Home office stipend 

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

Learn More about Us

Website: https://blackcloak.io

LinkedIn: /blackcloak

Twitter: @BlackCloakCyber

White Paper: https://bc.blackcloak.io/quantifying-the-business-need-for-digital-executive-protection-report-download

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