Hiring: Principal Machine Learning Engineer, SecureAI Company: Okta Location: San Jose, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 22:44:18 Target Skills & Keywords : API Gateway, AWS, Airflow, Compliance, FastAPI, Fine-tuning, LLM, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Machine Learning, Move, Okta, OpenAPI, PyTorch, Python, RAG, Spark, TensorFlow, TypeScript About the job Experience: •Supporting Your Well-Being •Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community •We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Required Skills: •Your core mission will be architecting and driving features for our unified control plane to establish the premier Identity Security Fabric for the agentic era. In doing so, you will help execute our guiding principle: "To get AI right, you have to get identity right." •Implement intent-based enforcement to verify agent runtime requests match their intended purpose, requiring key capabilities. •Integrate low-latency inference or semantic evaluation engines directly into the API gateway request path. •Use embeddings, vector search, or zero-shot classification to score alignment between agent intent and executed actions. •Design confidence-scored decision engines that feed semantic verification results into policy frameworks (e.g., Cedar). •Establish evaluation benchmarks, prompt injection defenses, and guardrails to prevent bypasses or false positives. •Architect scalable ML and Generative AI systems integrating retrieval, inference, and evaluation pipelines. •Optimize prompting, context retrieval, and RAG workflows for accuracy, safety, and efficiency in Claude-based systems. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!