Senior Data Scientist
Sonatype is the software supply chain management company that invented componentized software development and pioneered the software supply chain category. As leaders in the open-source community and the DevSecOps industry, we run the world’s largest repository of Java open-source components—Maven Central.
Our groundbreaking, full-spectrum platform empowers customers to rapidly create, deploy, and maintain innovative software at scale, all while aligning directly to their business needs. Trusted by more than 2,000 organizations—including 70% of the Fortune 100—and over 15 million software developers, Sonatype ’s tools and guidance help deliver exceptional, secure software.
From inventing modern artifact management with Nexus Repository to introducing the world’s only solution that halts malicious open-source malware in its tracks, we’re committed to constant innovation. We leverage AI/ML to give our clients, developers, and the industry complete confidence in the quality, automation, and security of their software.
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The Role
We're looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing AI & Data Science team and help shape how Sonatype applies machine learning and generative AI across the organization.
In this role, you'll provide technical leadership across high-impact AI initiatives, partnering with product, engineering, security, research, and data teams to identify opportunities, define approaches, and turn ambiguous problems into practical AI solutions. You'll help establish technical direction and best practices while remaining deeply hands-on—exploring data, designing experiments, building models, and guiding solutions into production.
You'll work across use cases ranging from malicious-behavior and anomaly detection in our security data to developer- and analyst-facing GenAI experiences involving LLMs, retrieval, and agentic systems.
This role is ideal for someone who combines deep technical expertise with strong judgment and influence—someone who can lead complex AI initiatives, mentor other practitioners, and help teams make thoughtful decisions about where and how AI can create meaningful impact.
What you'll do:
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Provide technical ownership for applied AI and data science initiatives across Sonatype , helping define approaches, architecture, priorities, and standards.
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Lead complex AI projects from concept to production—translating ambiguous business and technical problems into measurable experiments and scalable solutions.
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Act as a senior internal AI consultant to product, engineering, security, and research teams, helping identify high-value opportunities and advising teams on ML and GenAI approaches.
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Lead the research, development, and deployment of models for malicious behavior detection, anomaly detection, fraud analysis, and other security and product use cases.
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Design and guide advanced GenAI solutions using LLMs, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool use, and agentic or multi-step workflows.
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Establish strong experimentation and evaluation practices, including representative evaluation datasets, quality metrics, cross-validation, ground-truth evaluation, drift monitoring, and business-impact measurement.
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Set technical direction for reliable and maintainable AI systems, balancing experimentation with production quality, security, scalability, and responsible AI practices.
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Bridge research and production by designing scalable APIs, services, tools, and workflows that allow AI capabilities to be adopted across products and internal teams.
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Evaluate emerging AI technologies and frameworks and make recommendations on when and how Sonatype should adopt them.
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Partner closely with engineering and MLOps teams on deployment, observability, model lifecycle management, performance, and reliability.
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Mentor data scientists and other technical contributors, review technical approaches, and help elevate AI engineering and data sci