Remote Data Scientist, Cybersecurity - Own Security Metrics

Ladders; United States; On-site; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative environment

High-ownership

Cross-functional teamwork

Impactful work

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Data Scientist, Cybersecurity to join a leader in the Information Technology space. You will build data-driven approaches to measure security effectiveness, identify anomalous behavior, and improve decision-making across emerging AI-related security challenges.

This remote US-based role offers high ownership and direct impact on security outcomes and product value. You will partner with engineering and product teams to shape evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data science or analytics solving complex problems.
• Experience in cybersecurity, fraud prevention, or privacy.
• Proficient in SQL and Python with large datasets.
• Ability to define metrics and evaluation frameworks.
• Strong experimental design and analysis judgment.
• Collaborates with engineers and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define metrics to measure AI-agent security and control effectiveness.
• Quantify costs and friction of safeguards.
• Collaborate to strengthen data foundations and instrumentation.
• Identify anomalous behaviors and risky access patterns.
• Shape AI-driven cybersecurity products with engineering and product teams.
• Establish evaluation systems linking findings to outcomes.
• Measure end-to-end security issue resolution workflow.
• Design robust experiments for new security models.

Skills

Data science experience

SQL & Python

Cybersecurity context

Metrics & evaluation

Cross-functional collaboration

Independent work

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Data Scientist, Cybersecurity to join a leader in the Information Technology space. You will build data-driven approaches to measure security effectiveness, identify anomalous behavior, and improve decision-making across emerging AI-related security challenges.

This remote US-based role offers high ownership and direct impact on security outcomes and product value. You will partner with engineering and product teams to shape evaluation frameworks, instrumentation, and