Senior Data Scientist

At Extra Hop, we’re on a mission to protect and empower the connected enterprise. We reveal what is happening in the very infrastructure that sustains businesses, lives, and communities, and ensure the integrity of networks, data, systems, and processes. Organizations rely on Extra Hop to provide visibility into the cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and network performance issues that evade their existing security and IT tools.

With this insight, organisations can investigate smarter, stop threats faster, and keep operations running.

Our mission is fueled by a profound social and moral responsibility to be the best at what we do, ensuring a secure world where everyone can thrive. If this sounds like a place you’d like to spend the next chapter of your career.

Extra Hop is at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, delivering Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions that help organisations detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats in real time. Join Extra Hop as a Senior Data Scientist and help advance the machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities that power our products. You will analyse large-scale network telemetry, develop and evaluate methods for identifying malicious behaviour, and improve the accuracy and efficacy of Extra Hop’s threat detection capabilities.

This is an applied data science role for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous, high-impact problems using statistical analysis, experimentation, and machine learning. You will work closely with other data scientists, threat researchers, and software engineers to translate research into reliable product capabilities, and play a key role in contributing to the improvement of the RevealX platform.

• Analyze large-scale network telemetry to identify behavioural patterns, anomalies, and signals associated with malicious activity.
• Design, develop, and refine machine learning and AI-based methods that support Extra Hop’s products.
• Develop evaluation methods appropriate for cybersecurity data, including highly imbalanced datasets, incomplete labels, rare events, and changing attacker and network behaviour.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model development, and error analysis using complex, high-volume datasets.
• Research emerging machine learning and AI techniques, relevant cybersecurity developments, and assess their applicability to Extra Hop’s products.
• Establish metrics and monitoring strategies for measuring model and detector performance over time.
• Communicate findings, limitations, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical stakeholders and product leaders.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other data scientists through code reviews, design discussions, technical strategy, and contributions to the team’s analytical and engineering standards.
• Document methodologies, experiments, model behavior, and evaluation results.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested production-quality code.

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or another quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional experience in data science, including developing and evaluating machine learning models for real-world use cases, defining meaningful success metrics, and conducting rigorous offline and online evaluations.
• Strong foundation in statistics, experimental design, machine learning, and model evaluation.
• Experience working with incomplete, noisy, or highly imbalanced data; performing detailed error analysis; and identifying the causes of false positives and false negatives.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, experience with common data science and machine learning…