Data Scientist - Remote

Key Skills

Python Programming, SQL, Big Data Technology, Machine learning techniques, R Programming

Job Description

Job Title:

Data Scientist - Remote

Role Overview:

Does the thought of applying your passion to secure the digital lives of millions around the world excite you? As a Data Scientist within the Office of the CTO within the Artificial Intelligence Research group at McAfee, you will play a vital role in providing our customers with cutting edge protection and peace of mind.

You will leverage McAfee’s rich data ecosystems to uncover insights and implement new machine learning models to deliver incremental value in pursuit of providing the best protection in cybersecurity. You’ll have the opportunity to work with big data to identify potential improvements in our threat protection capabilities. You’ll have the ability to implement data pipelines as well as machine learning models to address a variety of opportunities. You’ll leverage your data visualization and storytelling skills to present your research to audience members ranging from fellow data scientists to senior executives.

This is a remote position in United States. We will only consider candidates currently in United States and are not offering relocation assistance at this time.

About the role:

• Apply data wrangling skills toward cleaning data and building data pipelines from which to implement model monitoring dashboards and machine learning models
• Apply data mining and exploration skills on raw and cleaned data in a variety of formats to uncover insights for data driven decision making
• Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge aimed at identifying opportunities to improve upon existing protection capabilities
• Work with stakeholders across the organization to identify opportunities utilizing big data from many different sources
• Use data visualization techniques and storytelling skills to convey research results in a meaningful manner with recommendations backed by data
• Own data science projects of varying scope from concept to delivery while focusing on delivering a solution to address the original problem statement to achieve success

About you:

• You have experience with programming languages such as Python, R, SQL

• You are self-motivated and comfortable working remotely in collaboration with an international team.
• You have strong problem-solving skills that can be applied toward data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, model development, model measurement, model deployment and model monitoring.

Company Overview

McAfee is a leader in personal security for consumers. Focused on protecting people, not just devices, McAfee consumer solutions adapt to users’ needs in an always online world, empowering them to live securely through integrated, intuitive solutions that protects their families and communities with the right security at the right moment.

Company Benefits and Perks:

We work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone at McAfee to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Pension and Retirement Plans
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to diversity which is why McAfee prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

For Colorado Residents the starting salary for this position is $61,500.00