Senior Data Scientist – Flex

Akamai Technologies

Leading development of data science aspects for Akamai's web security products in a multidisciplinary research team. Responsible for innovation, model development, and insights on web security attacks.

Posted 4/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇱 IsraelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudPandasPySparkPyTorchScikit-Learn

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

leading the development of data science aspects in the product, working as part of the multidisciplinary research team.
You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of models and agents.
Adding innovation and advanced models, and developing DS tools to provide insights and analysis of web security attacks.
Leading and collaborating on end-to-end projects across the team and with engineering and product partners, from initial concept through to final deployment
Developing working prototypes of statistical/machine learning-based algorithms, evaluating and comparing metrics based on real-world data sets
Developing agentic systems to enhance detections and research paths
Guiding engineering implementations of autonomous security agents
Working closely with security researchers to combine subject matter expertise into the models
Working to integrate security research learnings into the product
Innovating in the web security research and data science space
Providing DS expertise to the wider Akamai web security research group

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have a BS.C degree and at least 4 years of relevant experience in Data Science
Have knowledge in data science (pandas, PySpark, etc.), machine learning (sparkML, sklearn, PyTorch, etc)
Have experience deploying and maintaining machine learning and generative AI systems in production, including agent-based frameworks and monitoring pipelines
Be experienced in building evaluation pipelines to measure the performances and reliability of production models
Be experience in working with cloud notebook environments
Have good communication skills in English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

development opportunities
programs such as GROW and Mentoring
internal events like the APEX Expo
tools such as Linkedin Learning

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Hard Skills & Tools

data sciencemachine learningstatistical algorithmsagent-based frameworksevaluation pipelinesgenerative AIweb securitydata analysismodel developmentperformance metrics

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunication

Certifications

BS.C degree