Data Scientist

About Trail of BitsTrail of Bits helps secure the world’s most targeted organizations and products. We combine high-end security research with a real-world attacker mentality to reduce risk and fortify code.As a cybersecurity research and consulting firm, we serve clients in the defense, tech, finance, and blockchain industries. We help with their most difficult security challenges by designing and building new technology, researching new techniques to advance the state of practice, and reviewing the security of the latest available technology products before they hit the market.Our team consumes, produces, and presents research as a natural part of doing business. When we make new discoveries or developments, we strive to share our knowledge and release our tools as open source. It’s a practice that’s earned us industry accolades and helped contribute to our double-digit bottom-line growth.Role iVerify is the leading mobile threat detection tool for individuals and organizations of all sizes. It combines privacy-preserving mobile security management with advanced spyware detection. We are currently working on transitioning iVerify out of the Trail of Bits organization and establishing it as its own venture.We are seeking an experienced data scientist who will assist with iOS and Android security research and development and with building in-house malware detection for iVerify.This is a lucrative, high-growth opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting cybersecurity ventures in the market, working at the leading edge of mobile security and spyware detection.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, and validate machine learning anomaly detection models.
• Ensure that strong privacy protection and security is in place for training and forensics data.
• Support iOS and Android security researchers with data and insights.

Requirements

• Experience with building, training, and using machine learning models for anomaly detection
• An understanding of and focus on privacy preservation techniques such as differential privacy and data minimization
• An understanding of mobile device internals and forensics
• Experience with running machine learning models on mobile devices

Company Perks

• Before, during and after COVID-19, our workforce works flexibly. Many employees choose to work from home around the globe. As long as you deliver against your goals, we encourage you to harness your personal working style to let you work best.
• Liberal expense policy for acquiring the equipment and software that help you do your job. If we need hardware to work effectively, we buy it. 
• We offer exceptional and tailored technical, leadership and organizational training for our team members. Everyone is encouraged to identify additional opportunities for personal professional growth with working at Trail of Bits.
• We routinely highlight the amazing work our employees do via our blog, product offerings, and conference talks. We celebrate you!
• We're at the forefront of a number of markets and have the internal expertise and the ambition to capitalize on those opportunities. Our employees see their work in use and valued by many others.

Benefits for US Employees

• Multiple generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans including no-monthly-premium options supporting individuals and families through JustWorks.
• Ancillary benefits including life and disability insurance, pre-tax commuter benefits, free Citi Bike membership, access to a HealthAdvocate, a healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and a free One Medical membership.
• 4 months paid parental leave.
• 401k with 5% company matching through Betterment.
• Moving expenses: $5,000 one-time.
• Charitable donations matching up to $2,000.
• One time $1,000 at home office expense stipend.
• $500/year personal learning & development budget. 
• Executive coaching for managers and above.
• Options for co-working space (some restrictions may apply). 
• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.
• 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year.
• 15 company holidays per year.
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.
• Manage your student loans right alongside your 401(k) in Betterment.

Benefits for Canadian Employees

• Premium health, vision, and dental insurance plans.
• Life/AD&D Insurance options, as well as short- and long-term disability insurance plans.
• RRSP plan with 5% company matching.
• Charitable donation matching up to USD $2000.
• Bonuses for recruiting, public speaking, tool releases, blog posts, academic posters, proposals, and whitepapers, and end-of-year bonuses based on company, team, and personal performance.
• 10 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) and 10 days of sick time per year.
• 14 company holidays including provincial statutory holidays and select US holidays per year.
• Carbon offsets for your personal and corporate carbon emissions through Project Wren.

Dedication to diversity, equity & inclusionTrail of Bits is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace where our employees can thrive and be themselves! We welcome all persons into our community. We embrace the diversity of gender, gender identity or expression, race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical and mental disabilities, medical condition, genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, marital status, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or perceived membership in any of these groups.