Senior Data Scientist (SMTS)

Benefits

Parental leave

26 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

12 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

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Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

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Verification

Source-linked checked May 7, 2026

Salary

$179K-$246K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

90% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Data From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Senior From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Deadline

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About this role

Senior Data Scientist (SMTS) Washington - Bellevue; Virginia - Mclean; California - San Francisco The Team The Data Science & Analytics team in Salesforce Cyber Security Operations Center seeks an experienced, driven, and creative Senior Data Scientist to join the team. We explore, invent, build and scale new ways to secure the Salesforce platform. We leverage AI, machine learning, and contemporary data techniques to advance behavior- and signature-based techniques of many forms. We partner with threat, product, and engineering teams to deliver defenses that not only operate at scale, but evolve through agentic-based monitoring, testing, and continuous improvement. We are a growing, highly visible, and highly agile team where experimentation, collaboration, and spirited discussion are the norm. About You You're intensely curious about AI and data and are highly adept in analyzing large volumes of data, then teasing out valuable signals therein. You're able to seamlessly merge rigor in statistics with awareness of their application to business problems. You thrive in researching, experimenting with, applying, and proving out new techniques in AI, data mining, and machine learning. You partner with threat experts to understand evolving threat patterns and their detection. You collaborate effectively with software engineers to champion proven detection techniques, consult in their software implementation, and build and test production software. Responsibilities: Conduct and document rigorous exploratory data analyses of potential source datasets. Collaborate with internal incident-response, threat-intel, and product teams on evolving threats and their detection Formulate,build, test, and document proofs-of-concept for new techniques in threat detection. Drive

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