ML Data Engineer

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.

Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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Position Summary:

Trend Micro is a world-leading cybersecurity company that focuses on building cutting-edge AI applications and services, with a mission to secure these technologies and ensure a safer AI-driven world. We are seeking talented professionals to join our team in developing and optimizing advanced machine learning and AI systems.

As an ML Data Engineer, you will contribute across the full machine learning lifecycle, driving innovation in AI for cybersecurity and advancing techniques to secure AI applications.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build feature engineering pipelines, create domain-specific features, implement feature stores, and ensure consistency across training and inference.

• Build scalable preprocessing pipelines handling missing values, outliers, normalization, and validation. Implement quality metrics to detect data quality issues, biases, and drift. Ensure proper handling of imbalanced datasets and high-cardinality variables while preventing data leakage.

• Conduct exploratory analysis to understand data patterns and trends. Profile and optimize data workflows for performance, speed, and resource efficiency. Analyze model performance feedback to iteratively refine features and preprocessing strategies.

• Collaborate with data, ML engineers, and scientists to translate business needs into features. Ensure preprocessing consistency, document feature definitions and transformations, and develop reusable libraries to promote best practices.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience in data engineering, ML engineering, or related roles with proven track record of building production-grade data pipelines and feature engineering systems at scale

• Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis

• Experience with distributed computing frameworks (such as PySpark)

• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals: supervised/unsupervised algorithms, model evaluation, cross-validation, hyperparameter tuning, and bias-variance trade-off

• Knowledge of statistical analysis, feature selection methods, dimensionality reduction, and handling class imbalance (SMOTE, undersampling, class weights)

• Experience with feature engineering libraries, data validation frameworks, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Strong software engineering practices including testing, version control, code reviews, and documentation

• Ability to communicate technical findings through clear visualizations and documentation

What We Offer You:

You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. Trend Micro provides benefit options for you and your family.

• Group benefits program with health and dental coverage

• Telehealth Virtual Health Services

• Life Insurance

• Short & Long Term Disability 

• Pre-partum, maternity, parental and medical leave

• Critical Illness Insurance

• Mental Health Wellness Program

• Wellness Incentive Program

• Retirement Savings Programs with company match

• Paid Time Off

• 14 Annual Holidays

• Tuition Assistance

• Employee Resource Groups

We offer competitive compensation with bonus opportunity tied to company performance, along with room to enhance your skills through ongoing learning and broad technological opportunities. Achieving work-life balance is a priority, complemented by team activities, fostering an environment rooted in equity, inclusion, and collaboration, that is reflected in both our culture and our work.

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Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.

No sponsorship will be provided for work permit applications or renewals for this position now or in the future.

For applicants in the province of Ontario: Trend Micro Canada is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is CAD $105,000-130,000. A candidate’s final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors to include, but not limited to relevant work experience, skills, and certifications.

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