Data Scientist

Job Description:

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. (COMPANY NAME) Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The (COMPANY NAME) Security organization accelerates (COMPANY NAME)'s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The (COMPANY NAME) Identity security team is dedicated to safeguarding our users from account compromise and fraudulent activities. At the heart of this mission is our data science team, which plays a crucial role in developing and enhancing machine learning-based detection methods to identify and malicious actors, ensuring the protection of our customers. We are currently seeking an experienced data analyst to contribute to our efforts in building advanced analytics and automation capabilities. In this role, you will collaborate with data scientists and security researchers to develop detection mechanisms, establish evaluation methodologies for monitoring the performance of our machine learning systems, and enhance grading capabilities. Your responsibilities will extend to constructing detections based on expert findings and developing algorithms to automate the manual grading and investigation processes. Do you love big data and the challenges it entails? Do you like the idea of applying your technical skills to protect millions of (COMPANY NAME) customers from malicious actors? Do you want be part of a team of smart, talented and mission driven people? Then this job is for you!

(COMPANY NAME)'s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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* Build industry-leading fraud detection algorithms to prevent fraud and abuse of (COMPANY NAME) Identity services.
* Deliver end-to-end machine learning/deep learning solution to address critical product challenges.
* Set up and track metrics to assess the quality of our detections.
* Analyze new data sources and research new patterns and techniques that can be used in automated detection.
* Partner with different teams to onboard data and services detection development.
* Help the team achieve its mission by participating in incident resolution and investigations on identity attacks

Candidate Requirements:

* M.S or B.S.in a Computer Science/Statistics/Data Science/ Mathematics/Statistics or related field
* Experiance in building of products with Machine Learning and Deep Learning
* Strong proficiency with ML-frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn etc
* Familiarity with using a modern big data platform such as Hive/Spark/Cosmos/Kusto
* Production experience implementing machine learning pipelines and models at scale in Python, Scala, or similar languages
* Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship.

Ability to meet (COMPANY NAME), customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: (COMPANY NAME) Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the (COMPANY NAME) background and (COMPANY NAME) Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

(COMPANY NAME) is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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