# Senior Data Scientist at Empirical Security

- Company: Empirical Security
- What the company does: Backed by Costanoa Ventures.
- Company website: https://empiricalsecurity.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/empirical-security/f7b15b05-aa9b-4c84-95c5-b5e5917983af?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/empirical-security-senior-data-scientist/

## About the role

You own models and data end to end: problem framing, features, training, evaluation, deployment, and the uncomfortable part where you explain to a customer why the vulnerability their board is worried about ranked 400th on the remediation list. Design, train, and ship exploit prediction models against ground-truth exploitation telemetry, in cloud, appsec, and traditional infrastructure. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Several years of applied machine learning or statistics with models that ran in production and had consequences when they were wrong
- Fluency in Python and SQL, and the discipline that comes with version control, reproducible pipelines, and secure handling of customer data
- Real depth in classification under heavy imbalance, plus at least one of: survival and time-to-event analysis, Bayesian hierarchical modeling, or causal inference
- Calibration instincts. You should be visibly uncomfortable when a model outputs 0.9 and is right 60% of the time
- The ability to explain a model to a security executive, and to quantify uncertainty out loud rather than burying it in an appendix
- Enough curiosity about attacker behavior to ask why a feature works, not just whether it does

Tags: Engineering

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