Nightfall makes safeguarding sensitive data for every application simple and seamless. Organizations, from startups to global brands, trust Nightfall's software platform and APIs to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data.
As an early Data Scientist at Nightfall, you’ll design & implement models that enable us to detect sensitive data with high accuracy across petabytes of heterogeneous & unstructured data.
Responsibilities:
Conduct state of the art research in natural language processing, deep learning, and machine learning.
Selecting and engineering features based on mining massive data sets.
Prototyping & testing algorithms to innovate state of the art detectors of sensitive information.
Building, training, tuning a variety of machine learning & deep learning models.
Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building state-of-the-art detectors.
Productionize data science models and collaborate closely with data engineering & product team to establish a feedback loop.
Ideal Qualifications:
3-6 years of experience for the Mid-Level role
7+ years of experience for the Senior role
BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, machine learning, NLP, deep learning, AI or a related technical field.
Strong software engineering skills across multiple languages including but not limited to Python, Javascript, etc.
Experience building one of the following production systems in industry: natural language processing, Bayesian models, information retrieval, learning to rank, recommender systems, speech recognition, unsupervised learning.
Good mathematical understanding of popular NLP and/or machine learning algorithms.
Hands-on experience with NLP tools, libraries, and corpora.
About Nightfall:
Nightfall is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping organizations secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in modern organizations is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud data silos, and it’s a herculean task for security & compliance teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for organizations to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and even their own apps. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We're a technology startup founded in San Francisco, well-funded by leading institutional investors like Bain and Venrock, and a cadre of security & IT leaders from Okta, Salesforce, Atlassian, Splunk, FireEye, and more. Learn more on our website www.nightfall.ai or by reaching out via email at careers@nightfall.ai.
