Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Blackpoint Cyber as a Senior Data Scientist and build data science solutions for the development of AI products and features. You will report to the Head of Artificial Intelligence and directly support Blackpoint’s cybersecurity mission by helping stop cyberattacks and protecting its growing customer base. This role requires 5+ years of hands-on data science experience with a proven track record of delivering AI products to production. You will need strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders. The position involves defining, implementing, training, and evaluating ML models, as well as designing and implementing data ingestion and transformation algorithms. Blackpoint Cyber offers competitive benefits.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in hands-on Data Science, with a track record of delivering A.I. products and services into production
• Experience building in the well-architected mindset—for efficiency, performance, security, and reliability
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on data-driven decision-making
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
• Experienced in Cloud-based ML development (AWS)
• Experienced in Data IngesHon & Wrangling (Spark, EMR, SageMaker)
• Experienced in Feature Engineering (Feature Pipelines, Feature Store)
• Experienced in Model Development, Analysis, & Deployment (SageMaker, Airflow)
• Experienced in Inference Streams & Event-driven Processing (Ka[a, Spark)
• Experienced in Scripting Language (Python, Bash)
• Experienced in Query Language (SQL, Ksql)
• Experienced in Containerized Services (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experienced in MLOps Workflows (SageMaker, MLFlow)
• Experienced in GitFlow & DevOps Best Practices

Responsibilities

• Build out Blackpoint Cyber’s data science solutions to support development of our A.I. products and features
• Report directly to the Head of Artificial Intelligence
• Support Blackpoint’s cyber security mission, helping to stop cyber-attacks, and protecting Blackpoint’s rapidly growing customer base
• Define, implement, train, and evaluate ML models
• Design and implement algorithms to ingest, wrangle, and transform model input data
• Conduct feature engineering to extract, construct, derive, and evaluate model inputs
• Perform statistical analyses per stakeholder requirements and modeling objectives
• Deploy models and feature engineering algorithms as scalable containerized solutions
• Develop model governance utilities and dashboards to monitor, report, and visualize performance of deployed solutions
• Implement data, feature, and model lifecycle best practices
• Contribute to A.I. architecture and design decisions
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Blackpoint Cyber’sSecurity Operations Center (SOC), and our Adversary Pursuit Group (APG)

Preferred Qualifications

• Time-Series Analysis
• Transformer Neural Nets
• Agile Scrum
• Programming (Scala, Java)
• Experience in Cybersecurity, IoT, or NLP fields

Benefits

• Competitive Health, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance plans
• A robust 401k plan
• Discretionary Time Off
• Other minor perks