Lead AI Engineer

Dallas Venture Capital is leading a search for a stealth-mode startup building an AI-native network security platform. The Lead AI Engineer will design, build, fine-tune, and deploy AI/ML systems focused on small language models and domain-specific cybersecurity models, while partnering with engineering, product, and security teams and providing technical leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Build, fine-tune, and deploy Small Language Models (SLMs) for cybersecurity use cases
• Develop AI/ML models for threat detection, anomaly detection, policy recommendations, and security analytics
• Create training datasets, evaluation benchmarks, and model validation workflows
• Optimize models for accuracy, latency, cost, and production scalability
• Build AI pipelines for data ingestion, model training, fine-tuning, deployment, and monitoring
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities into production systems
• Evaluate emerging AI, SLM, LLM, and cybersecurity modeling techniques
• Mentor engineers and help establish AI/ML engineering best practices