Research Data Scientist, Cloud Security

About the job

The Google Cloud Security Data Science Research team develops innovative, data-driven solutions to today’s most challenging cybersecurity problems. By leveraging data derived from Google, Mandiant, VirusTotal’s unparalleled view of the threat landscape, the team provides solutions with significant impact for our customers and the broader cybersecurity industry.

As a Data Scientist, you will help us solve challenging cybersecurity problems and protect billions of customers by applying their expert knowledge of machine learning and statistics. You will use your previous experience in applying machine learning and statistical techniques to cybersecurity problems, building models and analytic products that have been deployed to customers, and work with massive datasets.

In this role, you will partner with Google and Mandiant subject matter experts on the front lines defending against advanced threat actors, iteratively develop new capabilities, and work closely with our Engineering team to deploy and maintain them. Our team handles a wide range of cybersecurity challenges from threat intelligence scoring to dark web threat detection to automated security operations with generative AI. We encourage sharing impactful learnings through publications at academic conferences and talks at industry venues.