Machine Learning Engineer
Job Description
Who you are:
We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team. If you have a passion for stopping bad actors and excel in working with machine-learning models and data analytics over large datasets, this is your place.
You are willing to learn new skills, eager to stay up to date, and to work with other domain experts outside of your comfort zone. You enjoy working in a collaborative environment as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, providing domain expertise when needed, sharing ideas and knowledge.
What You’ll Do
- Proactively analyze potential detection gaps, propose projects and ideas, and define and implement a plan to make them real.
- Analyze large datasets to extract complex data patterns.
- Monitor changes in the threat landscape via automation and visualization techniques and develop models to identify new threats.
- You will have the opportunity to build or enhance machine-learning pipelines to support Cisco’s security products and tools, covering from model selection and training, to optimization, deployment, and monitoring.
- You will be in contact with many different products and domains across Cisco’s security product portfolio including malware detection, web and email classification.
- Keep yourself abreast of the latest research in security and machine learning and regularly present new techniques to the rest of the team.
- Publish internal and external reports, papers and blog posts detailing your research findings.
Minimum requirements:
- Background in cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on threat detection.
- Solid experience in machine learning and data science, proficient in both supervised and unsupervised algorithms and frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
- Experience working with large, real-world datasets that require pre-processing, data visualization, and a great dose of analytical skills.
Preferred requirements:
- Undergraduate or postgraduate in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experienced with cloud based data processing platforms such as AWS, and/or Databricks.
- You have firm software development skills with Python/PySpark, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Docker.
- Comfortable with relational and NoSQL databases/datastores such as Elasticsearch.
- Familiar with the threat landscape and threat intelligence concepts.
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