Security Data Scientist: Customer-Facing, Impactful Modeling

Empirical Security; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Empirical Security is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Data Scientist to join our FDDS team. You will collaborate with customers, engineering, product, and security teams to operationalize vulnerability models and deliver scalable data solutions across cloud, appsec, and traditional environments.

The role focuses on leveraging telemetry, prioritizing data sources, and shaping remediation workflows while maintaining secure, reliable pipelines and clear customer communications.

Qualifications

• Baseline engineering hygiene with Python/SQL, APIs and data formats.
• Enterprise security engineering fluency and architecture understanding.
• Exposure and vulnerability management expertise in enterprise environments.
• Security data integration and normalization capabilities.
• Strong customer-facing technical communication abilities.
• Knowledge of common security telemetry and systems (EDR, IAM, CMDB, etc.).
• Analytical mindset for diagnosing data issues and quantifying impact.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, engineering, product, and security teams to operationalize vulnerability models.
• Lead discovery and prioritization of security data sources and assess feasibility and value.
• Apply exposure-management expertise to support actionable use cases and remediation workflows.
• Design and validate ingestion pipelines with secure handling of customer data.
• Perform data analysis to diagnose issues and quantify impact, proposing remediation steps.
• Create customer-facing documentation, data dictionaries, and runbooks for ingestion issues.
• Collect, clean, and normalize various security data sources.
• Stay current on exposure-management practices and vendor ecosystems to guide integrations.

Skills

Python/SQL

APIs

Git/version control

Reliability/observability

Secure data handling

Security data integration

Data normalization

Communication with customers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Vulnerability scanners

EDR

CMDB

Ticketing/ITSM

Job description

Empirical Security is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Data Scientist to join our FDDS team. You will collaborate with customers, engineering, product, and security teams to operationalize vulnerability models and deliver scalable data solutions across cloud, appsec, and traditional environments.

The role focuses on leveraging telemetry, prioritizing data sources, and shaping remediation workflows while maintaining secure, reliable pipelines and clear customer communications.