data
Posted 3 hours agoSenior Data Scientist, Detection
at LazyApply
Hybrid
Responsibilities
- Research, design, and evaluate detection models that identify automated, fraudulent, and malicious activity across Internet-scale data.
- Define how detection success is measured, designing metrics and evaluation strategies for problems where ground truth is noisy, delayed, or contested.
Requirements
- As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.
- We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools.
- Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up.
- If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.
- We develop advanced detection systems and machine learning models that operate at scale, collaborating with Product and Engineering teams across the company to protect our customers and stay ahead of the constantly evolving threat landscape. Responsibilities
- Stay current on emerging AI/ML research and evaluate how new techniques (e.g., LLMs, generative AI) can be applied to our products.
- Partner with ML Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product to take detection approaches from research to production and measure their real-world impact.
- experience across fraud, abuse, and/or bot detection on large, high-velocity traffic. You may focus on one, but you transfer instincts between them.
- Strong fundamentals, fluent in data.
- You have solid applied statistics, machine learning, and AI methodology fundamentals.
- experience professionally working in Data Science, ML Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
- Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.
Benefits
- You are very comfortable with Python & SQL in production environments. Bonus points
- Impact-driven and clear. You connect your work to business impact and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Compensation
- Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.
- For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $185,000 - $231,000. Equity
- This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits
- benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun! The below is a description of our
- Health & Welfare Benefits
- Medical/Rx Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance
- On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
- Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
- Life & Accident Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
- Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off
- Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
- Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave
- All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.
Contact
- Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.
Additional details
- At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet.
- Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies.
- Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code.
- Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request.
- Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.
- At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with.
- Cloudflare’s Engineering Team is home to some of the industry’s top engineers, dedicated to building and scaling innovative software that handles a huge proportion of the Internet.
- Our Detection department sits at the heart of that mission: we identify automated, fraudulent, and malicious activity across the Internet and through our gateway.
- Dig into massive datasets to uncover the patterns and behaviors that distinguish adversaries from legitimate users.
- You choose the right technique for the problem, and are fluent with large-scale data.