Who is SimSpace:
SimSpace launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most urgent and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges to reduce risk for our most vulnerable and valuable infrastructure. The organizations around the world that we depend on every day to keep our loved ones safe and secure. Our healthcare facilities, schools, financial institutions, transit centers, grocery stores, and workplaces just to name a few. To deliver global resiliency, we provide an elite cyber range platform to curate unassailable cyber defenses, data driven decisions, cutting edge training labs, live attack scenarios, and extensive individual and dynamic team readiness training.
SimSpace works as OneTeam to elevate humanity around the world. We are committed to continuously improving and delivering a cultivated member experience whether that is accomplished through focusing on supporting our client’s teams or our own mission driven SimSpacers.
We are an international company headquartered in Boston's Fort Point in the U.S. If you are interested in elevating the technology and creative solutions necessary to secure and safeguard our future while working alongside others who share your passion for purpose and development, we want to meet you!
Why should you choose a career at SimSpace?
We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere everyday which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.
Our core values:
- Serve to Protect – We provide safe space, deliver on the mission, and elevate humanity
- Acquire Understanding – We seek and provide clarity 10x, cultivate comprehension, and believe information goes both all ways
- Operate as Innovators – We stay curious, practice consistency over intensity, and continue to be the change we need in the world
- Teamwork Without Borders – We are never alone, we solve for all, and keep people at the heart of everything we do
We are seeking a Senior Data Science Engineer to join our team, bringing expertise in machine learning, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, and analytics. In this role, you will develop and enhance systems that evaluate security tool data. You will identify key performance metrics and refine our scoring methods to understand their efficiency in various cybersecurity domains.
Prior cybersecurity expertise is not required.
What you will be doing as a Senior Data Science Engineer at SimSpace:
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Enhancing cybersecurity assessments to more precisely measure the ability of organizations, teams, and individuals to respond to new threats.
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Conducting in-depth evaluation and analysis of cybersecurity tool logs to identify key log entities and assess their relevance in scoring a tool’s efficacy and performance
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Creating, analyzing, and integrating large-scale datasets into our platform to drive data-driven insights and enhance system capabilities
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Improve scoring algorithms and automate evaluation processes for efficiency and accuracy
Who you are:
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You thrive on solving complex problems and building innovative solutions through collaboration
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You actively seek and provide constructive feedback to continuously improve yourself and your team
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You embrace a growth mindset, recognizing that every system and process can be refined and optimized
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You are goal-oriented and driven by team success, aligning your efforts with impactful outcomes
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You prioritize the iterative delivery of high-quality, well-tested, and maintainable code
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You balance scalability and reusability with practicality, making mindful trade-offs to achieve the best results
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You are motivated about staying at the forefront of technological advancement, in actively applying emerging trends in data science, algorithms, and machine learning
What are the qualifications to apply? To be successful as a Senior Data Science Engineer, you need to have:
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At least 6+ years of professional Data Science experience or a PhD in a relevant field and significant professional Computer Science / Software Engineering experience.
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Skilled at developing high-quality software that is clear, closely tracked, fully tested, and securely designed for reliability, speed, and easy maintenance.
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Familiarity with machine learning and related topics like LLMs, Transformers, Reinforcement learning, Natural Language Processing, classification algorithms, supervised and unsupervised learning and recommendation systems.
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Knowledge with some subset of the following libraries and tools(TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jax, Pydantic, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn, SQL and NoSQL databases)
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Skilled with writing highly optimized code to accelerate intensive tasks.
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Proficient in Python and git. Knows GitLab or GitHub. Aware of container systems and databases. Can use CI/CD. Experienced in handling multiple tasks at once using multithreading and multiprocessing. Good at communicating. Informed about the latest software development and testing methods.
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Exemplary oral and written communication skills.
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A problem-solver that is highly self-motivated, accepting of others’ opinions, and can work skillfully in a team.
We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:
- Compensation. Base salary range: $160,000 – $215,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions.
- Health & Wellness. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
- Mental Health Support. Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
- Financial Well-Being. Plan for your future with a 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
- Flexible Time Off. Take the time you need with unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days. SimSpace provides flexible solutions to meet the diverse work-life needs of team members.
- Parental Leave. Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.
- Ownership Opportunities: Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our shared success.
- Referral Rewards: Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.
- Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: Full- and partial- subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals.
- Continuous Learning: Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.
- Social Connections: Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
- Extra Perks: Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life’s details.
SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
SimSpace does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression and identity, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military/veteran status, in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.
Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!
We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact [email protected].
SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.
Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.
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What We Do
Founded in 2015 by experts from the U.S. Cyber Command and MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, SimSpace combines the highest-fidelity, military-grade cyber ranges and training content with unique user and adversary emulation techniques.
By providing team and individual training exercises, attack simulations, mission rehearsals, and product evaluations that leverage its cyber range, the SimSpace Cyber Force Platform delivers quantitative and actionable insights into how an organization can protect critical assets against cyber threats. SimSpace prepares individuals, teams and leaders for continued success against ever-evolving adversaries.
No other organization has SimSpace’s depth of experience in creating high fidelity cyber ranges with unique user and adversary emulation techniques.
These techniques are designed to stress people, process and technology across individual and team-level training exercises, attack simulations, mission rehearsals, and product evaluations. SimSpace's mission is to provide an automated, cost-effective evaluation method for calculating cyber risks based on realistic comprehensive assessments of holistic capability to yield more secure networks globally
