Scientist

Company: Cisco
Location: Ann Arbor
Posted on: May 3, 2021

Job Description:

Our team is our secret weapon. We lead the spectrum from artists to analysts, calm to high energy, and bring together a diversity of skill sets, experiences, and perspectives to solve what we consider to be the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge - transforming the security industry as we know it. Together we build solutions that are easy, effective, trustworthy, and enduring. And that's why we are the most loved and trusted company in security.

What You'll Do

As Duo's data science team, we use statistics and machine learning to empower our colleagues and customers to make data-informed decisions. We support product development and prioritization, architect Duo's data analysis environment, research and build the ML models behind [1] Duo Trust Monitor, coauthor impactful [2] public reports, and more. We spend a fair bit of time on the deceptively difficult task of counting things.

Who You'll Work With

As a data scientist with a focus on product analytics, you will partner with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers to understand customer activity patterns, identify product opportunities, and measure the impact of feature changes. Your work may include wide ranging exploratory analysis or start to finish feature development. You will guide action with data while collaborating with world class domain specialists to make security simple.

As a Senior Data Scientist for Product Analytics at Duo you will: * Support decision-making in Duo's R&D department through analysis and interpretation of data. * Collaborate with Product Management and other partners to design and develop product features that improve security and usability for our customers. * Define impactful metrics, modeling objectives, and lines of research to support product development. * Measure and monitor the behavior of deployed product features to drive improvements, reduce bias, incorporate feedback, and adapt to shifting conditions. * Be a steward of Duo's data analysis ecosystem, improving data discoverability and standardization. * Contribute to survey design, data analysis, and narrative construction for external artifacts such as the [3] Trusted Access Report or State of the Auth Report. * Mentor junior data scientists while continuing to learn and expand your own skill set. * Be an advocate for data literacy and empiricism at Duo.

Who You Are

* A strong grounding in statistics and machine learning foundations. * Significant experience solving applied, product-driven problems through modeling, measurement, and data analysis. * You can carefully evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of analysis approaches, and to think critically about the impact of choices made during data collection, processing, modeling, and interpretation. * Interest in engaging with poorly defined problems, and the ability to make decisions under uncertainty. * Fluency with your data analysis environment of choice (Python/Pandas/scikit-learn, R, etc.), reproducible reporting, and data visualization. * Strong communication skills with other data scientists and with partners from other domains. You must be able to meaningfully engage with collaborators with limited data expertise during both question definition and results delivery. * Ability to independently and consistently manage project timelines and work you're doing. * Experience working as part of a software product development team.

Even better if you have...

* A PhD or MS in statistics or a closely related field. * Experience in the security domain. * Specific expertise in developing and tracking metrics for SaaS products. * Software Engineering experience, especially in Python. * Fluency with SQL, Snowflake, AWS, Python, R, Spark, and git.

3 Reasons why you should apply...

* You love to tackle sophisticated, practical, collaborative problems with data. * A company culture of kindness, transparency, and learning. [4] Employees love Duo. * Ability to positively impact millions of users. [5] Customers love Duo.

This job may not be for you if...

* You stress under ambiguity and lack of precedent. We're building something new and that often means clearing our own path. * You are most interested in pushing the boundaries of models or statistical methodology in the context of a clearly defined problem and objective. The problems we work on are often new or poorly defined, and the best solution is often the simple one.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

References

Visible links 1. https://duo.com/docs/trust-monitor 2. https://duo.com/resources/ebooks/the-2020-duo-trusted-access-report 3. https://duo.com/resources/ebooks/the-2020-duo-trusted-access-report 4. https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Duo-Security-Reviews-E776456.htm 5. https://duo.com/use-cases/case-studies

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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