Company Description
Company Description:
For over 10 years, Zscaler has been disrupting and transforming the security industry. Our 100% purpose built cloud platform delivers the entire gateway security stack as a service through 150 global data centers to securely connect users to their applications, regardless of device, location, or network in over 185 countries protecting over 7,000 companies and 150 Million threats detected a day.
We work in a fast paced, dynamic and make it happen culture. Our people are some of the brightest and passionate in the industry that thrive on being the first to solve problems. We are always looking to hire highly passionate, collaborative and humble people that want to make a difference.
Come and join our team and be a part of this exciting transformation to cloud-based security.
Job Description
About the Role:
Zscaler is looking for an experienced AI/ML Research Leader (Director to Vice President) focused on making significant progress in AI, ML and Data Science. Individuals in this role are expected to be recognized experts in identified research areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational statistics, and applied mathematics – particularly including areas such as deep learning graphical models, reinforcement learning, computer perception, natural language processing and data representation.
As the AI/ML Research Leader (Director/VP), you will join a centralized organization that helps inform business decisions and improve Zscaler products and user experiences through data insights, predictive models, experimentation, and analytics. This team is a critical partner delivering insights that inform both product/market strategy and feature development roadmaps.
In this role, you will provide engineering leadership and direction that spans all data infrastructure and analysis products built by our organization. The engineering decisions you make and direction you set will generate impact at Zscaler. This will deliver insights extracted from Zscaler’s wealth of data, thus enabling teams throughout the company to have the data and tools to make sound decisions more accurately and quickly.
Qualifications
Responsibilities:
Lead research to advance the science and technology of intelligent machines. Lead research that enables learning the semantics of data (images, video, text, audio, speech and other modalities). Drive technical excellence and innovation within the AI/ML organization, promoting leading-edge AI and ML technologies and best practicesDevise better data-driven models of human behavior. Work towards long-term ambitious research goals, while identifying intermediate milestones.Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications. Contribute research that can be applied to AI/ML product engineering & development. Lead and collaborate on research projects within a globally based team.
Preferred Qualifications:
5-8+ years experience in software engineering with a focus on AI and Machine Learning (ML) learning applicationsExperience holding a faculty, industry, or government researcher position. Ph.D. and publications in machine learning, AI, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, data science, or related technical fields. Experience leading a team in solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.Experience manipulating and analyzing data from different sources. Experience in theoretical and empirical research and for answering questions with research.Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers. Knowledge in a programming language. Experience driving original scholarship in collaboration with a team. First-author publications at peer-reviewed AI conferences (e.g. NIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, and ACL). Experience in developing and debugging in C/C++, Python, C# and/or Java
Additional Information
Additional Information:
The base salary range for this full-time position is $225,000 to $300,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Zscaler’s salary ranges are benchmarked and are determined by role and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based on a multitude of factors, including job-related skills, experience, location and relevant education or training.
What You Can Expect From Us:
An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architecturesA fun, passionate and collaborative workplaceCompetitive salary and benefits, including equityThe pace and excitement of working for a Silicon Valley Unicorn
Why Zscaler?
Zscaler is the world’s leading software-as-a-service security platformWe deliver best of breed security services with unprecedented scaleWe protect 40 million users, in 7,000+ organizations, across 185+ countriesBlue Chip Customers (30% of the Global 2000 and 40% of the Fortune 500)Glassdoor rating of 4.7/5.0 + 98% CEO Approval = Exceptional place to work!
People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement?
If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team!
Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com. Learn more at zscaler.com or follow us on Twitter @zscaler. Zscaler is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
What You Can Expect From Us:
An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architecturesA fun, passionate and collaborative workplaceCompetitive salary and benefits, including equity
Why Zscaler?
People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and celebrates achievement? If you said yes, we’d love to talk to you about joining our award-winning team.
Additional information about Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS ) is available at https://www.zscaler.com.
Zscaler is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy or related medical conditions), age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Zscaler is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations or adjustments) in our recruiting processes for candidates who are differently abled, have long term conditions, mental health conditions or sincerely held religious beliefs, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. This email address is used specifically for accommodation requests only, and resumes, CV’s, or questions other than accommodations will not be replied to or accepted.