Intern - Data Scientist (AI Research)
Santa Clara, CA, United States
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Palo Alto Networks
Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Workforce, Leverage Threat Intelligence & Security Consulting. Cybersecurity Services & Education for CISO’s, Head of Infrastructure, Network Security Engineers, Cloud...Company Description
You must have the authorization to work within the United States
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:
Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.
We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks. And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.
Job Description
Your Career
We are looking for a brilliant Data Scientist that wants to make a career out of using machine learning to address security problems. Previous intern projects include building a novel ML algorithm in Hadoop, setting up a pipeline that classifies over 1M webpages a year, building a classifier to detect malicious Javascript pages (which eventually led to several patents), and upgrading production systems to use deep learning models instead of traditional ML models. A high percentage of data science interns join the Palo Alto Networks team full-time.
Our Summer Internship Program from May-August or June-September provides you:
- 1:1 mentorship
- Fun and engaging events that inspire your intellectual curiosity
- The opportunity to expand your knowledge and work on challenging projects
- Connections to other recent grads, and employees across the company as well as our leaders
Your Impact
- Learn to apply Machine Learning in a production environment
- Perform research related to security and malware
- Work on distributed clusters with large amounts of data
Qualifications
Your Experience
- Be an excellent programmer - experience with distributed cloud systems like GCS or AWS and containers like Docker a big plus
- Have a strong working knowledge of machine learning algorithms that may include CNNs, LSTMs, XGBoost, Byte Pair Encoding schemes, etc.
- Be comfortable working independently, be able to produce something impressive in one summer, have the ability to come up with novel solutions to difficult problems
Requirements – To apply, you must be pursuing a 2-year Master’s Degree or a Doctorate degree and returning to school in the fall.
Additional Information
The Team
To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we may be facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. As a predictive enterprise environment, we analyze petabytes of data that pass through our walls daily and we hire the most talented minds in data science to build creative predictive analytics and data science solutions for our cybersecurity solutions.
Our Commitment
We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Covid-19 Vaccination Information for Palo Alto Networks Jobs
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- You choose to access a Palo Alto Networks worksite
- If you have questions about the vaccine requirements of this particular position based on your location or job requirements, please inquire with the recruiter.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: AWS Deep Learning Docker Hadoop JavaScript Machine Learning ML models Research Security XGBoost
Perks/benefits: Career development Medical leave Team events
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