Research Engineer / Data Scientist

Lancope’s Office of the CTO seeks an innovative Research Engineer / Data Scientist to develop new techniques in applying big data to network security.Thisisanexcitingopportunitytojoin agrowingteamtoinventandapplytechniquesinappliedstatistics, graph analysis,andmachinelearningtowardtelemetryanalysis,dataminingandthreatdetection.

Main Responsibilities

• Inventand/orapplynewtechniquestotelemetrydata to identifynewsecuritythreats.

Key Attributes

• Experience and desire to own innovative ideas from inventions, through proof-of-concept, to engineering and deployment
• Brings considerable experience, motivation and organization to make an impact on threat detection
• Intense curiosity to drive hands-on work to complete all phases of applied research

We are looking for candidates that have:

• Experiencein data manipulate using interpreted language (e.g. Python) and JVM language (e.g. Java or Scala)
• Extensivehands-onexperiencewithHadoopecosystem.HBaseandSparkhighlydesirable.
• Hands-onexperiencewithdistributedgraphdatabases(e.g. Titan)
• ExperienceturningresearchideasintoactionabledesignsandPOCs
• Comfortableworkinginanopen,dynamic,applied-researchteamwheremultipleon-goingprojectsandopencollaborationarethenorm
• Strongverbal,written,analytical,andpersuasiveskills.Abletocommunicateeffectivelywithbothtechnicalandnon-technicalcolleagues.
• Facilitywithappliedstaticsormachinelearning
• Experienceindataminingandworkingwithlarge, diverse, unfiltereddatasetshighlydesirable.
• Advancedegreeinrelevantfield(PhDpreferred)orcommensuratedirectexperience

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