Data Scientist, Machine Learning

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CrowdStrike is a global leader in cybersecurity, protecting the people, processes, and technologies that drive modern organizations. Our mission is to stop breaches, and we have redefined modern security with the world's most advanced AI-native platform. We protect customers across all industries, ensuring their businesses run smoothly, their communities are safe, and their lives move forward. CrowdStrike is a mission-driven company that fosters a culture of flexibility and autonomy, empowering every CrowdStriker to own their careers. We seek talented individuals with limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation, and a fanatical commitment to our customers, community, and each other. The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

CrowdStrike's CTO Labs team is expanding at the exciting intersection of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Security. We are looking for a Data Scientist specializing in machine learning to join our growing team. You will have the opportunity to apply your coding, mathematical, and scientific research skills to the bleeding edge of security technology. You’ll leverage large-scale rich data to meaningfully improve our supervised learning models and refine our identification of malicious computer software and behavioral threats. CrowdStrike's cybersecurity data is unique, processing nearly a trillion behavioral events per day and holding over 2000 terabytes of malware samples in our research repository. You will join a diverse, multidisciplinary team, broadening your horizons by working with Big Data, Machine Learning, and Security domain experts on challenging and impactful problems.

Responsibilities

• Mine large-scale and high-dimensional data, identify patterns, and visualize trends.
• Create predictive models using supervised learning techniques to detect and stop sophisticated threats.
• Innovate new semi-supervised and online learning techniques to enhance threat detection capabilities and reduce false positives for customers.
• Work closely with domain experts to improve raw data and derive more value from collected data.
• Balance detail-oriented research with goal-oriented business objectives.
• Implement and experiment with new algorithms and methodologies to improve machine learning models.
• Automate and visualize analyses, results, and processes within our machine learning pipeline.

Requirements

• Ph.D. with significant AI/ML experience
• OR Master's degree with significant AI/ML experience and 1-2 years of work experience
• OR Bachelor's degree with 2-4 years of AI/ML work experience
• Degree in a STEM field.
• Extensive post/undergraduate experience in data science, machine learning, or any field employing computational science or data-driven analyses.
• Programming experience in Python.
• 2+ years of experience working on real-world machine learning models and pipelines.

Bonus Points

• Passionate about cybersecurity, with a firm understanding of the problem space, or passionate about applying machine learning skillsets to new domains like cybersecurity.
• Versed in utilizing Machine Learning techniques and familiar with standard algorithms, their trade-offs, usage, and tuning.
• Experience working with very large datasets of sparse, high-dimensional data, including pre-processing and analysis for actionable insights.
• An independent self-starter who takes ownership and seeks out new challenges.
• Eager to learn and willing to step outside comfort zones to acquire new technologies, algorithms, and concepts.
• Comfortable diving into Python codebases, including experience with unit testing and the Python packaging ecosystem.
• Comfortable and experienced working in a Linux environment.

Company Information

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We’re also a mission-driven company. We cultivate a culture that gives every CrowdStriker both the flexibility and autonomy to own their careers. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.