The Role

Proofpoint is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Algo team. The key responsibility for this role is to further enhance our email threat detection engine that protects some of the largest businesses in the world.

You will collaborate cross‑org with Product and Engineering and lead major initiatives end‑to‑end ensuring that we apply state‑of‑the‑art machine learning tools and techniques to identify and solve the most impactful problems. You will also help promote machine learning best practices and encourage innovative approaches to problem‑solving within the team.

Your day‑to‑day

• Wrangle and draw meaningful insights from massive amounts of unstructured email datasets using the latest tools and technologies like Spark, Iceberg, Athena, AWS SageMaker


• Apply tested machine learning model techniques (Boosting/Bagging) to classify large amount of imbalanced labelled datasets
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