Staff Machine Learning Engineer

About SailPoint : SailPoint is the leader in identity security for the cloud enterprise. Our identity security solutions secure and enable thousands of companies worldwide, giving our customers unmatched visibility into the entirety of their digital workforce and ensuring that workers have the right access to do their job—no more and no less. Built on a foundation of AI and ML, our Identity Security Cloud Platform delivers the right level of access to the right identities and resources at the right time—matching the scale, velocity, and changing needs of today’s cloud-oriented, modern enterprise. About the Role As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a critical role in shaping, building, and scaling SailPoint ’s AI-powered capabilities. You’ll work at the intersection of AI innovation, software engineering, and platform architecture—designing robust, production-grade ML systems that deliver customer insights and intelligent automation across our identity platform. As a senior technical leader, you’ll partner closely with engineering, AI, and product teams to drive innovation, define our ML strategy, and mentor others in applying best practices for scalable, responsible AI. This is both a hands-on and strategic role. You will lead complex, end-to-end ML initiatives—from model design and experimentation to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement—while advancing the evolution of SailPoint ’s AI platform, data pipelines, and model governance standards. About the team: The AI team at SailPoint applies AI and domain expertise to create AI solutions that solve real problems in identity security. We believe the path to success is through meaningful customer outcomes, and we leverage classical ML as well as recent innovations in Generative AI and Graph ML to bring our solutions to SailPoint ’s core product lines. Responsibilities Design, implement, and optimize ML models (supervised, unsupervised, and LLM-based) that power both customer-facing and inte