Senior Data Scientist – Flex

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Leading development of data science aspects for Akamai's web security products in a multidisciplinary research team. Responsible for innovation, model development, and insights on web security attacks.

Responsibilities:

  • leading the development of data science aspects in the product, working as part of the multidisciplinary research team.
  • You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of models and agents.
  • Adding innovation and advanced models, and developing DS tools to provide insights and analysis of web security attacks.
  • Leading and collaborating on end-to-end projects across the team and with engineering and product partners, from initial concept through to final deployment
  • Developing working prototypes of statistical/machine learning-based algorithms, evaluating and comparing metrics based on real-world data sets
  • Developing agentic systems to enhance detections and research paths
  • Guiding engineering implementations of autonomous security agents
  • Working closely with security researchers to combine subject matter expertise into the models
  • Working to integrate security research learnings into the product
  • Innovating in the web security research and data science space
  • Providing DS expertise to the wider Akamai web security research group

Requirements:

  • Have a BS.C degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience in Data Science
  • Have knowledge in data science (pandas, PySpark, etc.), machine learning (sparkML, sklearn, PyTorch, etc)
  • Have experience deploying and maintaining machine learning and generative AI systems in production, including agent-based frameworks and monitoring pipelines
  • Be experienced in building evaluation pipelines to measure the performances and reliability of production models
  • Be experience in working with cloud notebook environments
  • Have good communication skills in English.

Benefits:

  • development opportunities
  • programs such as GROW and Mentoring
  • internal events like the APEX Expo
  • tools such as Linkedin Learning