TENEX.AI
Senior Data Scientist
San Jose, CA · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Education
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent experience).
About the job
Designs, deploys, and monitors machine learning models that improve threat detection, alert triage, and predictive security intelligence for TENEX’s cybersecurity platform.
What you'll do
- Develop and manage the lifecycle of security ML models, including feature engineering, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.
- Build data pipelines and evaluation frameworks, and apply research methods to emerging cyber threats.
- Partner with Security Operations, Product, and Data Engineering to make model outputs actionable and communicate findings.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience in Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong theoretical and practical experience with ML models, plus proficiency in Python and its data science ecosystem.
- Expertise in SQL and large-scale data warehouses; experience with MLOps principles, tools, and platforms.
- Understanding of probability, statistics, and experimental design; experience deploying and maintaining models in GCP or AWS.
Nice to have
- Prior data science or ML experience in cybersecurity, security analytics, MDR, or MSSP environments.
- Experience with streaming data systems, vector databases, RAG architectures, modern analytics engineering frameworks, or early-stage startups.
Tools
Python, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow, SQL, Snowflake, BigQuery
AI focus
Develops and deploys ML for threat detection, anomaly scoring, behavioral analytics, and alert triage; also uses vector databases and RAG pipelines for security context and large language model applications.
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