Senior Data Scientist, Cyber Threat Detection

Salesforce, Inc.; Ashington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. Data Science & Analytics team in the Cyber Security Operations Center seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join the team and advance AI-driven threat detection and analytics.

You will explore, prototype, and scale techniques to defend the Salesforce platform and collaborate with threat, product, and engineering teams. You will drive rigorous analyses, develop production-ready solutions, and communicate findings to stakeholders while championing innovative approaches in

Qualifications

• At least four (4) years experience in a related field.
• Demonstrated experience delivering advanced data mining or machine learning techniques as a lead or sole contributor.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience formulating, leading, and executing applied-research projects and assisting in their production implementation.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.
• At least two (2) years experience, plus a graduate degree in a related technical field.
• At least two (2) years of experience in selecting and applying machine-learning techniques; or mining datasets over 1 TB in volume.
• Strong understanding of security, including threat propagation and signal correlation.
• Experience in applying AI and big-data techniques to security, specifically in anomaly detection, pattern recognition, behavior-based analysis, and correlation.
• Related experience in genomics, high-speed trading, or other domains involving pattern recognition or behavior-based analysis

Responsibilities

• Conduct and document exploratory data analyses of potential source datasets.
• Collaborate with internal incident-response, threat-intel, and product teams on evolving threats and their detection.
• Formulate, build, test, and document proofs-of-concept for new techniques in threat detection.
• Drive or assist in engineering scalable, production-ready software for proven techniques.
• Champion, build, and maintain AI-driven capabilities for all of the above.
• Communicate proactively to product, threat-research, and other stakeholders via presentations, proposals, and requirements.
• Champion and build AI-driven capabilities for all of the above.

Skills

Programming: Java/Python/Scala

Statistics & probability

Communication skills

AI & big data in security

Data mining / ML leadership

Education

Graduate degree in a related technical field

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. Data Science & Analytics team in the Cyber Security Operations Center seeks an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join the team and advance AI-driven threat detection and analytics.

You will explore, prototype, and scale techniques to defend the Salesforce platform and collaborate with threat, product, and engineering teams. You will drive rigorous analyses, develop production-ready solutions, and communicate findings to stakeholders while championing innovative approaches in