Senior Data Scientist
London, England
Proofpoint
Proofpoint helps protect people, data and brands against cyber attacks. Offering compliance and cybersecurity solutions for email, web, cloud, and more.It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Corporate Overview
Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organisations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber-attacks. Leading organisations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.
We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That is why we are a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.
The Role
Proofpoint is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Algo team. The key responsibility for this role is to further enhance our email threat detection engine that protects some of the largest businesses in the world.
You will collaborate cross-org with Product and Engineering and lead major initiatives end-to-end ensuring that we apply state-of-the-art machine learning tools and techniques to identify and solve the most impactful problems. You will also help promote machine learning best practices and encourage innovative approaches to problem-solving within the team.
Your day-to-day
Wrangle and draw meaningful insights from massive amounts of unstructured email datasets using the latest tools and technologies like Spark, Iceberg, Athena, AWS SageMaker
Apply tested machine learning model techniques (Boosting/Bagging) to classify large amount of imbalanced labelled datasets
Develop and implement advanced anomaly detection models and algorithms to identify unusual patterns, behaviors for detecting email threats
Directly impact the effectiveness of our core products by training and deploying models to production using AWS SageMaker as the MLOps platform
Brainstorm, communicate, and partner with Product and Engineering teams promoting a data-driven approach to identify focus areas for data science research
Mentor data scientists, drive best practices and cultivate an environment of experimentation and learning
Stay up-to-date and explore the latest advancements in machine learning, AI technologies, and incorporate them into our solutions where applicable
What you bring to the team
Experience leading multiple highly impactful machine learning projects with proven results
In-depth experience with boosting machine learning frameworks for imbalanced classification task e.g., XGBoost or Catboost
Conceptual understanding of Graph Neural Networks and experience applying GNNs to solve real world problem statements. Prior experience in fraud detection, particularly in applying graph neural networks or other advanced machine learning algorithms to detect fraud is desirable
In-depth experience with one or more deep neural network frameworks e.g., PyTorch, Tensorflow, JAX. Experience with PyTorch Geometric or DGL is a plus
Experience monitoring and maintaining performance of models over time in production taking into account model/data drifts
A creative mindset, propensity to care deeply about the impact their team has and to encourage novel ways of critical thinking in their team
Great listening skills; open to input from other team members and departments
Why Proofpoint
Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We’re a customer-focused and driven-to-win organisation with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.
We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtProofpoint
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Athena AWS Classification Engineering JAX Machine Learning MLOps PyTorch Research SageMaker Security Spark TensorFlow XGBoost
Perks/benefits: Career development
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