Sr Data Scientist at F5

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.  Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.Today, as part of F5, Security products identify and stop automated attacks and fraud against web and mobile applications of the Fortune Global 2000. Tomorrow, we’ll need to fight even more sophisticated adversaries, while helping human users to have ever more friction-less experience. Come be a part of our unparalleled team that is responsible for making the Internet a safer place for everyone.The PositionWE are seeking a driven, analytical and highly professional data scientist to help deliver our anti-fraud solution to customers, and the future of what we build. You will enjoy working with one of the richest data sets in the world, cutting-edge technology, and the opportunity to train and deploy machine learning models to fight fraud, in real-time and on highly visible web and mobile applications.This Data Scientist will be part of a team that is responsible for delivering F5's anti-fraud solution to customers. You’ll have an opportunity to engage closely with customers, and become an expert in fraud across multiple use cases and industry verticals. We are looking for a data scientist who has a nose for identifying fraud and anomalous patterns in huge and often messy datasets, and who is adept at using these insights to build high-performance machine learning models. The ideal candidate will also have a penchant for working closely with enterprise customers, and a desire to deliver outstanding value to them.Responsibilities:
Work closely with customers to quickly understand their fraud challenges, and identify how F5 might be able to help them successfully fight fraud.
Identify useful data from customers’ web and mobile applications, and engineer relevant features for fraud models.
Train and deploy machine learning models to predict fraud outcomes, based on telemetry and customer-provided data.
Maintain models for customers, and update or refresh them as needed.
Communicate clearly and effectively with internal teams (sales, customer success, product, engineering, etc) and with customers on the performance of machine learning models, as well as other fraud and data science issues.
Provide feedback to internal teams on data science, product, engineering issues, and suggest process improvements.
Requirements:The ideal candidate would have:
Strong analytical skills including the ability to manipulate, model, interpret and visualize large quantities of structured data.
Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
Experience with building and deploying machine learning models on large-scale data. Experience working with highly unbalanced data (e.g. commonly found in fraud use cases) a strong plus.
A passion for delighting customers, and an aptitude for engaging with customers on fraud, security and machine learning issues on a regular basis. Prior experience working with customers on complex fraud or security issues would be a strong plus.
Familiarity with common web and mobile technologies.
Strong interpersonal skills, personable, and persistent. A good listener. Self-motivated, able to work well both independently and as part of an agile team.
A demonstrated enthusiasm and capacity to learn new technologies quickly.
A scrappy yet meticulous approach, and a love for problem solving!
#LI-RemoteThe Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.The annual U.S. base pay range for this position is:  $160,499.00 - $240,749.00F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits. More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits. F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice. Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Yello/Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).Equal Employment OpportunityIt is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination.  F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.