Junior Data Scientist

Gen is a global company powering Digital Freedom through consumer brands including Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, and CCleaner. Our combined heritage is rooted in providing safety for the first digital generations. We bring leading technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than 500 million users in 150 countries so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently today and for generations to come. We're always looking for smart, fearless, and dedicated people. Together, we have collective passion and a big vision to power Digital Freedom by protecting consumers and giving them control of their digital lives. 

When you’re a part of Gen, you are provided access to a range of resources and support to ensure you can do your best work and live your best life. This includes flexible working options with generous time off and competitive benefits & compensation packages.

Diversity is foundational to how we do business because we know the greatest ideas and results come from our unique perspectives and differences. We strive to create a safe, inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. Team members are valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are in a meaningful and exciting atmosphere. Gen is an equal employment opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs.  

If this sounds like you—Gen has a dynamic, supportive culture with core values that celebrate diversity, promote teamwork, and encourage every team member to contribute and grow—join us!

About The Role:

We are looking for a junior Data Scientist to help us build a portfolio of AI-powered scam protection solutions to help people around the world feel the safe during their online transactions.

About The Team:

As online scams become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, the significance of robust AI-powered scam detection solutions became paramount. Due to the constantly evolving tactics and methods employed by scammers, achieving such a solution is challenging. Cybercriminals are agile and adaptive, continuously looking for new ways to circumvent existing security measures. Therefore, continuous monitoring and updates to AI algorithms and their ground truth datasets are essential. AI developers must stay proactive, keeping pace with emerging scam trends and deploying adaptive, self-learning models. Collaboration between security experts and AI researchers is a key to achieve effective and resilient scam detection solutions. The role will be focusing on following the very dynamic scam ecosystem, creating datasets for scam detection solutions, identifying new trends that need to be focused on the future.

What You’ll Do In This Role:

• Following trends in online scams.

• Creating datasets for AI-powered scam detection solutions.

• Working on scam taxonomy.

• Work with AI experts and system security experts to create a bridge between them to create robust AI solutions.

• Having fun in creating new and crazy ideas!

What You’ll Need To Be Successful In This Role: 

• Scripting and programming skills such as Python.

• Basic security knowledge.

• Dedicated enthusiasm and courage to digest, hack, and dive into the unknown.

• Communication, presentation, and visualization skills.

Gen is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible environment for all employees. All employment decisions are based on merit, experience, and business needs, without regard to race, color, national origin, age, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth or related medical conditions), genetic information, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Gen strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based on such protected characteristics and seeks to recruit the most talented candidates from diverse cultures and backgrounds. 

We also consider employment-qualified individuals with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Learn more about pay transparency. 

Gen complies with all anti-discrimination laws. 

To conform to U.S. export control regulations, applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.