Senior AI-Driven Data Scientist, Cyber Security

100 Salesforce, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k)

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Data Science & Analytics team within the Cyber Security Operations Center. You will explore, invent, and scale AI and ML techniques to advance threat detection and protection for the Salesforce platform, collaborating with threat, product, and engineering teams to deliver scalable defenses.

You will merge rigorous statistics with business insight, lead applied research projects, and help productionize proven detection methods while

Qualifications

• At least 4 years in a related field, or 2+ years with a Master’s in a related technical field.
• Strong fundamentals in applied statistics and probability.
• Experience delivering advanced data mining or machine-learning techniques as lead or sole contributor.
• 2+ years applying machine-learning techniques; or mining datasets over 1 TB in volume.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or Scala.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience formulating, leading, and executing applied-research projects and assisting in their production implementation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct and document rigorous 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 and effectively to product, threat-research, and other stakeholders via presentations, proposals, and requirements.
• Champion and build AI-driven capabilities for all of the above.

Skills

Statistics

Programming: Java/Python/Scala

Communication skills

Data mining / ML techniques

Applied research

Education

Master's degree in related technical field

Job description

Salesforce is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Data Science & Analytics team within the Cyber Security Operations Center. You will explore, invent, and scale AI and ML techniques to advance threat detection and protection for the Salesforce platform, collaborating with threat, product, and engineering teams to deliver scalable defenses.

You will merge rigorous statistics with business insight, lead applied research projects, and help productionize proven detection methods while