Senior Data Scientist

Posted:
12/10/2025, 7:39:47 AM

Location(s):
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ⋅ Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ⋅ New South Wales, Australia ⋅ Queensland, Australia ⋅ Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ⋅ Tasmania, Australia ⋅ Victoria, Australia

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics

Workplace Type:
Remote

Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to make life easier for security teams. We meticulously create robust solutions that enable our customers to identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity risk across their attack surface, vendor ecosystem, workforce, and trust relationships. Our integrated cyber risk posture management platform combines comprehensive security ratings, instant risk assessments, templated security questionnaires, threat intelligence capabilities, and agentic AI to give organizations a holistic view of their risk surface.

Our Product team at UpGuard comprises of our Product Management, Product Support, Engineering, Design, Data Leaks Detection, and Third Party Risk Management Services. Our Product team’s vision is to become the leader in the Cyber VRM category by providing a best-in-class SaaS platform for organizations to manage their third-party risk and external attack surface. Our purpose as a Product team is simply to build a product that enables this. We aim to build a product that users love and come to rely on, and one that regularly and consistently improves.

Where does this role fit in? 
We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the evolution of our scoring algorithms, provide data-driven insights to our product squads, and help shape how AI is applied across our products. This role bridges analytics, data science, and applied AI, helping turn complex security data into actionable, trustworthy intelligence.
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UpGuard is a Certified Great Place to Work® in the US, Australia, UK and India, establishing its position as a leading global technology employer. 99% of team members agree that UpGuard is a great place to work, apply now to find out why!

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

For applications to positions in the United States, please note, at this time we can only support hiring in the following US states: CA, MD, MA, IL, OR, WA, CO, TX, FL, PA, LA, MO, or DC

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a national police history check and reference checks. Also please note that at this time, we cannot support candidates requiring visa sponsorship or relocation.

UpGuard

Website: https://www.upguard.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 51-100

Year Founded: 2012

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Series B

Industries: Cyber Security ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Insurance ⋅ Intelligent Systems ⋅ SaaS ⋅ Software ⋅ Test and Measurement