Senior Staff / Principal Machine Learning Scientist, AI Inference & Optimization is open at Netskope in Santa Clara, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $124K - $272K. Posted on Jul 14, 2026, and still on Netskope’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you own the inference and optimization layer that makes AI in agentic workflows fast, efficient, and production-grade. You fine-tune and evaluate models, push latency and throughput on real hardware, and build the runtime that executes bounded AI tasks, validated against usage from Netskope’s large customer base so you optimize where the data points, not where you guess…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Netskope’s careers page.
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Netskope has 122 open roles right now. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Data & Research. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $229K. See all its roles
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