Senior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

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Company Description

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more nimble, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, the company's proprietary cloud-native platform, protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications, regardless of their location.

With over a decade's experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers globally, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies. Besides safeguarding customers from threats like ransomware and data exfiltration, it also helps them cut costs, reduce complexity, and enhance user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-causing gateway appliances.

Zscaler was established in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe space for business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler's purpose-built security platform situates a company's defenses and controls at the connections' site—the internet—ensuring every connection is swift and secure, no matter the users' connection method or where their applications and workloads are based.

Job Description

Our team's use cases are diverse, including but not limited to threat detection, policy recommendation, LLM-powered applications, malware detection, content classification, anomaly detection, and AIOps (advanced networking diagnosis). These various use cases allow you the opportunity and challenges to work with multiple machine learning algorithms and tools.

Your role will involve designing and creating machine learning models to provide quicker and more effective solutions for cloud security, cloud operations, and cloud intelligence use cases.

You might not be an expert in every stage of a Machine Learning project, but you should have interests and curiosity in various parts ranging from the data to the business impact of the model.

Qualifications

  • A minimum of 4 years' experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist
  • Proficiency with Python (pandas, sklearn, pytorch) and SQL
  • Experience with feature engineering, model evaluation, and model error analysis
  • Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering required; a focus on data science is a plus, and a PhD is preferred
  • A passion for utilizing ML/AI to solve real-world business issues (improving security and enhancing business results)
  • Excellent interpersonal, technical, and communication abilities
  • Strong business acumen and customer focus
  • Ability to learn, evaluate, and adopt new technologies quickly
  • Ability to lead and execute projects from start to finish
  • A solid foundation in computer science

Additional Preferred Skills

  • Experience engineering and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Experience with Graph Neural Networks/Knowledge Graphs
  • Experience with unsupervised learning (clustering), and evaluating unsupervised models
  • Experience with active/few-shot learning
  • Experience with logs analysis/logs mining
  • Research Experience/Publications
  • Experience with various public cloud services (such as AWS, Google, Azure) and ML automation platforms (such as Kubeflow).
  • Experience with programming languages such as (Py)Spark.
  • Good understanding of operating systems and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with networking and networking security.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 to $160,000 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Zscaler's salary ranges are benchmarked and determined by role and level. The range shown on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

What You Can Expect From Us:

  • A work environment where you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and architectures
  • A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
  • Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are intelligent, motivated, and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team up with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work with disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a dynamic work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you answered yes, we'd love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.

Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at .

Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Zscaler is dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations (or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term health conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, are neurodivergent, or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. This email address is solely for accommodation requests and will not respond to CVs, resumes, or other non-accommodation related queries.