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Principal Machine Learning Engineer, SecureAI at Okta

Department: SW Eng - Applications-674

Compensation

$238,000 – $326,000/yr

Setup
Hybrid
Location
San Francisco, California
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

Okta is hiring a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for its Agent Access Policies sub-team to build dynamic AI security mechanisms for agent access control. The role focuses on intent-based enforcement, LLM reasoning and prompt parsing, low-latency inference, embeddings and vector search, semantic verification, policy frameworks, evaluation pipelines, guardrails, and scalable ML and generative AI systems. Candidates need 10+ years of software development experience, applied machine learning expertise, modern generative AI platform experience, and familiarity with AI agent frameworks and evaluation workflows. The position offers a San Francisco Bay Area base salary of $238,000–$326,000 USD plus equity, bonus, and benefits.

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