Security Engineer, GuardDuty Security Analytics and AI Research

$136,000 - $212,800/Yr

Amazon - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

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About the position

Amazon Web Services is seeking experienced Security Engineers to join the Security Analytics and AI Research group. This role focuses on researching and developing machine learning algorithms for Amazon GuardDuty, aimed at enhancing security measures for cloud-based resources. The position involves inventing innovative solutions to complex cybersecurity challenges and integrating successful experiments into large-scale production services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to research and develop innovative ML/AI solutions for challenging cybersecurity problems.
• Analyze the output of ML/AI models for accuracy, customer impact, and interpretability.
• Integrate successful experiments into large scale, highly complex production services.
• Build complex systems that turn machine/deep learning and AI research into great products for our customers.
• Rapidly design and conduct large scale experiments in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment.
• Interact with other security engineers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that we need innovative solutions for.

Requirements

• 3+ years of programming in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object oriented language experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP

Nice-to-haves

• 2+ years of any combination of the following: threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
• Experience with AWS products and services
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and development

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Financial benefits
• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package