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We build models specific to individual customers, and maintain many of them side by side.\nThis hasn’t been done before in cybersecurity. Come change the way security teams make decisions with us. FDDS works side by side with our customers, rapidly understanding their toughest issues; architecting and building solutions that get the right data into the hands of modeling data scientists and providing insights to our design partners and customers.\nFamiliarity with complex cybersecurity environments and data sets is a plus here.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nCollaborate closely with our customers, engineering, product, and security teams to operationalize vulnerability models, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with customer needs.\n\nLead discovery and prioritization of customer security data sources (asset inventory, vuln scanners, EDR, IAM, CMDB, cloud posture, ticketing, external attack surface, threat intel), including feasibility, value, and effort trade-offs.\n\nApply exposure-management domain expertise to ensure data supports actionable use cases (attack surface reduction, vulnerability prioritization, remediation workflows, risk acceptance, SLA tracking).\n\nPartner with engineering to design and validate ingestion pipelines (APIs, exports, streaming/batch), ensuring reliability, observability, and secure handling of customer data.\n\nPerform pragmatic data analysis to diagnose data issues and quantify impact (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency), and recommend remediation steps to customers and internal teams.\n\nDefine and maintain customer-facing technical documentation: integration guides, data dictionaries, validation checklists, and runbooks for common ingestion and modeling issues.\n\nCollect, clean, explore, analyze, and normalize various security data sources.\n\nStay current on exposure-management practices, vulnerability intelligence, attacker tradecraft, and the relevant vendor ecosystem to inform integrations and customer guidance.\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\nBaseline engineering hygiene (Python/SQL comfort, APIs and data formats, Git/version control, and an appreciation for reliability/observability and secure data handling).\n\nEnterprise security engineering / architecture fluency (security controls, reference architectures, trade-offs, and how security capabilities integrate into real-world enterprise environments).\n\nExposure and vulnerability management expertise (asset-centric thinking, prioritization workflows, remediation SLAs, exception handling, and common program maturity patterns).\n\nSecurity data integration and normalization skills (ability to evaluate customer data sources, assess data quality, define mapping/normalization, and drive onboarding priorities).\n\nStrong customer-facing technical communication (requirements discovery, explaining complex technical concepts clearly, running workshops, and producing crisp technical documentation).\n\nWorking knowledge of common security telemetry and systems (e.g., vulnerability scanners, EDR, IAM, CMDB, ticketing/ITSM, cloud security, external attack surface-enough to ask the right questions and validate data fitness).\n\nPragmatic analytics capability (comfortable with basic statistics, exploratory analysis, and sanity-checking model outputs; can quantify uncertainty and limitations without being a deep ML specialist).\n\nTechnical collaboration across engineering and data science (can translate customer needs into technical requirements, partner on pipeline design, and unblock implementation details).\n\nA Final Word\nDon't check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! Studies have shown that marginalized communities - such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color - are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Empirical Security is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging - so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. 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