Senior Data Scientist, Cyber Security Operations Center

Salesforce, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Scientist for the Cyber Security Operations Center to guide AI-driven threat detection at cloud scale. You will architect end-to-end detection frameworks and partner with executives, threat intelligence, and engineering teams to deliver autonomous defenses.

You will lead a team to deploy agentic AI systems, monitor performances, and continuously improve models. Strong collaboration and strategic communication are essential to inform security leadership and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience in applied data science, ML, or AI engineering (or 6+ years with MS/PhD).
• 3+ years in a technical leadership capacity owning project lifecycles from ideation to production.
• Deep expertise in statistics, probability, and ML techniques (deep learning, sequence modeling, anomaly detection, NLP/LLMs).
• Experience deploying ML pipelines and models over large-scale datasets (multi-terabyte or petabyte).
• Production-level programming in Python, Java, or Scala with Spark/PySpark/Flink and modern MLOps.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision, methodology, and roadmap for data science and AI-driven detection within CSOC.
• Architect, build, and oversee proofs-of-concept for threat detection models and scale to production.
• Lead partnerships with incident response, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and product security teams.
• Own enterprise AI-driven capabilities including agentic monitoring systems and automated threat correlation.
• Mentor data scientists and establish code quality, model governance, testing, and pipeline reliability.
• Translate ML models and security signals into actionable insights for leadership and engineers.

Skills

Applied statistics

Machine learning

Python/Java/Scala

Big data frameworks

ML pipelines

Cross-functional leadership

Threat analytics

Tools

Spark

PySpark

Flink

Job description

Salesforce, Inc. is seeking a Lead Data Scientist for the Cyber Security Operations Center to guide AI-driven threat detection at cloud scale. You will architect end-to-end detection frameworks and partner with executives, threat intelligence, and engineering teams to deliver autonomous defenses.

You will lead a team to deploy agentic AI systems, monitor performances, and continuously improve models. Strong collaboration and strategic communication are essential to inform security leadership and