Senior Data Scientist - Cybersecurity ML & LLM Innovator

Varonis; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Varonis is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and optimize ML and LLM capabilities addressing cybersecurity challenges. You will collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, security researchers, and product management to design, deploy, and evaluate models for production use.

The role requires strong Python, NLP, and ML skills, with experience in embeddings, prompting, and vector databases, and a track record of delivering high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 5+ years of data science or ML experience.
• Strong ML/deep learning background with classifier models.

Responsibilities

• Analyze large, complex datasets to identify patterns and threats.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity researchers to address threats using ML/LLM.
• Design, develop, evaluate ML and LLM-based solutions from experimentation through production.
• Develop and optimize LLM techniques including prompting, retrieval, embeddings, and RAG.

Skills

Python

PySpark

Databricks

NLP

LLM

Prompt engineering

Embeddings

Vector search

RAG

Model fine-tuning

Classification models

Data analysis

Experiment design

Communication

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Statistics/Mathematics

Master’s or Ph.D. (a plus)

Tools

OpenAI models

Hugging Face

Job description

Varonis is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to develop and optimize ML and LLM capabilities addressing cybersecurity challenges. You will collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, security researchers, and product management to design, deploy, and evaluate models for production use.

The role requires strong Python, NLP, and ML skills, with experience in embeddings, prompting, and vector databases, and a track record of delivering high-quality solutions in a dynamic environment.