Serve as a member of BitSight's dynamic Data Science team. The team's primary focus is to understand corporate cybersecurity at Internet scale. Using BitSight's world-class petascale cybersecurity dataset, the team works to develop algorithms and models that measure cybersecurity performance and risk. Members of the Data Science team collaborate closely with BitSight's product and engineering teams to develop new products and customer-facing features. The team also works closely with the marketing team to share results of internal research.

For this position, we are open to hiring candidates at any level - Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist or Principal Data Scientist.

Objectives & Responsibilities

• Research and develop techniques for measuring cybersecurity performance at scale


• Develop methods for estimating risk due to cybersecurity measures


• Develop techniques for extracting firmographics from a variety of data sources


• Visualization and presentation for products and external publications


• Conduct research and reporting on the security environment and data landscape


• Conduct research, writing, and presentations in support of marketing activities and customer engagements to promote key findings and capabilities and explain data and ratings concepts


• Apply data science and machine learning to other challenges within BitSight including but not limited to the modeling of customer data, sales opportunities, company asset discovery, and cybersecurity research tools

Expected Skills

• Ownership mentality and entrepreneurial drive, proven ability to work autonomously


• Strong technical background with expertise in machine learning, statistics, or data-driven social science (e.g., Economics); or data-driven cybersecurity


• Strong communication and analytical skills including the ability to identify and frame initially vague problems and communicate solutions


• Experience using Python for data analytics


• Familiarity with distributed data processing and data storage technologies


• Basic knowledge of computer networks

Desired Skills

• Strong programming skills


• Experience with big data platforms such as Spark or Hadoop


• Working knowledge of cybersecurity and networking

Education

Ph.D. or Masters in a quantitative field, or equivalent industry experience

Work Location

Boston, MA, Raleigh, NC, or Lisbon, Portugal preferred. Remote candidates with demonstrated ability to work independently may be considered