← All jobs · Databricks

Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety

Databricks ·
63
AI-Agency
B65 U60
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $192K–$260K Staff 7+ yrs
PythonSQLSpark
TL;DR

Staff Data Scientist at Databricks focused on Trust and Safety. Develops ML models for fraud and abuse detection, analyzes security features, and collaborates with engineering and security teams to protect the platform and customers.

Apply at Databricks →
you'll be redirected to the company's career page

Job description

RDQ426R282

Databricks is building the world's best and most secure platform for data and AI. We innovate and deploy industry-leading solutions in security, compliance, and governance. 

As a member of the Trust and Safety Data Science team, you will work on projects critical to ensuring the security and compliance of the Databricks Platform. Our customers depend on Databricks to keep their data safe, all while orchestrating millions of virtual machines across three clouds in dozens of regions around the globe.

Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform. We serve many companies with varying security and compliance needs. To efficiently serve these markets, we need to understand how customers use our existing features. This requires data-driven analysis of all aspects of security programs at Databricks.

Customers also trust Databricks with their most valuable data and we have the mission to build the most trusted data analytics and ML platform in the world. We’re looking to expand our Trust and Safety Data Science team. You will join a group of “full stack” data scientists who partner with engineering and security teams, focusing on strategic plans that make Databricks secure and safe for our customers. The team will use statistical and machine learning techniques for fraud and abuse detection on our platforms using state of the art methods . You can read more about some of our efforts in this blog post. The work in fraud and abuse detection is dynamic and essential, offering an opportunity to make a substantial impact in maintaining the security and efficiency of business operations.

More information is available at https://www.databricks.com/trust.

The impact you will have:

What we look for:

 

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.

 

Local Pay Range
$192,000$260,000 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on TwitterLinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an applicant on this basis alone.

Apply at Databricks →

More open roles at Databricks

Databricks ·
Software Engineer - GenAI inference
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $142K–$204K · Mid
Software engineer at Databricks building the GenAI inference engine for the Foundation Model API. Focus on LLM serving systems optimization, GPU kernels, distributed inference infrastructure, and performance bottleneck analysis.
CUDAcuBLAScuDNNNCCLPythonPyTorch
81
AI-core
Databricks ·
Staff Software Engineer - GenAI inference
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $190K–$232K · Staff
Staff software engineer at Databricks building the GenAI inference engine for the Foundation Model API. Focus on architecture, optimization, and scaling of LLM serving across GPUs and accelerators.
CUDAcuBLAScuDNNNCCLPyTorchMLflow
81
AI-core
Databricks ·
Senior GenAI Research Engineer - Optimization and Kernels
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $166K–$225K · Senior
Senior GenAI Research Engineer at Databricks optimizing GPU kernels and distributed training for large language models. Focus on CUDA kernel development, parallelism strategies, and performance optimization for LLM training workloads.
CUDAPyTorchNVIDIA GPUPythonDeepSpeedMegatron-LM
81
AI-core
Databricks ·
PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern
📍 San Francisco, US 💰 $112K–$124K · Intern
PhD GenAI Research Scientist Intern at Databricks working on domain adaptation for LLMs and AI systems. Focus on fine-tuning, evaluation, retrieval augmentation, and efficient inference for enterprise applications.
PyTorch
81
AI-core
Databricks ·
Sr. Developer Advocate, Databricks AI Agentic Systems
📍 San Francisco, US 🛠 AI tools welcome at work · Senior
Senior Developer Advocate at Databricks focused on AI Agentic Systems and MLOps. Drive adoption of Agent Bricks through reference implementations, technical content, community building, and product advocacy for enterprise AI governance.
PythonPyTorchscikit-learnLangChainLlamaIndexDSPy
80
AI-core