Senior Data Scientist, AI Security & Threat Detection

CrowdStrike; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the NGSIEM Agentic AI team. You will design, build and deploy advanced AI systems that analyze and prioritize millions of security events per second, enabling rapid threat identification and response.

You will own end-to-end AI/ML architecture, drive innovation across LLMs and autonomous AI workflows, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to deliver scalable AI for security

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical strategy for large-scale retrieval, ranking, vector search, RAG, and anomaly detection systems operating at enterprise scale.
• Drive innovation across LLMs, AI-powered discovery, personalization, and autonomous AI workflows.
• Define the future direction of AI-driven reasoning, ranking and investigation capabilities across the platform.
• Own end-to-end AI/ML architecture, including data pipelines, feature engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish scalable architecture patterns, engineering standards, experimentation frameworks, and operational best practices across multiple teams.
• Drive foundational investments and technical direction across AI platforms, retrieval infrastructure, model-serving systems, and ML tooling.
• Balance model quality, customer experience, latency, scalability, reliability, security, and infrastructure cost when making architectural decisions.
• Define evaluation methodologies, experimentation strategies, and success metrics to assess product, model, and business impact.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to identify high-value opportunities and deliver scalable AI

Job description

CrowdStrike is a leading cybersecurity company seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the NGSIEM Agentic AI team. You will design, build and deploy advanced AI systems that analyze and prioritize millions of security events per second, enabling rapid threat identification and response.

You will own end-to-end AI/ML architecture, drive innovation across LLMs and autonomous AI workflows, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, and Operations to deliver scalable AI for security