Senior Data Scientist

Empirical Security is seeking an experienced Security Data Scientist focused on building the next generation of cybersecurity vulnerability models. Our unique approach leverages ground-truth telemetry to develop predictive, actionable insights that transform the way organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud, appsec and traditional environments. We build models specific to individual customers, and maintain many of them side by side.

The role

You own models and data end to end: problem framing, features, training, evaluation, deployment, and the uncomfortable part where you explain to a customer why the vulnerability their board is worried about ranked 400th on the remediation list.

What you'll do

• Design, train, and ship exploit prediction models against ground-truth exploitation telemetry, in cloud, appsec, and traditional infrastructure.

• Build evaluation that survives contact with reality. Precision, recall, coverage, efficiency, calibration, and how all four decay over time. Accuracy is not a number you report once at launch.

• Solve for extreme class imbalance. A fraction of a percent of published CVEs are ever exploited in the wil