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Process Specialist with Know-how in Cyber Security Worldwide, 60% Remote, 110 and 140k CHF/year

Where you work

You work at least 50 to 60% where you want to work.

However, your work also takes place partly in the computer lab and at the customer’s site. You can use our labs either at the MPI in Munich, at Fraunhofer in Stuttgart or Darmstadt, as well as our own labs in the canton of Zurich.

Remuneration

The compensation is based on your qualifications. It is expected to be between 110 and 140k CHF/year.

Job description summarized

We are looking for you as a process specialist with expertise in the field of cyber security. Methodically develop our product area Intelligent Networks further. Develop new processes for enriching data between security systems. Analyze the data potential regarding the expansion of knowledge of our network-based security AI. Optimize the processes together with our data scientists throughout all training phases, especially for the pre-training phase. Analyze the data of attack scenarios together with our data scientists; define processes to standardize the transmission and automated parsing of data from partners, e.g., telecommunications companies and cloud operators. Develop processes for the automated improvement of the security AI of our open source cloud.

Who is HighPots?

At HighPots, everything revolves around software. HighPots develops complex software for different industries along the entire value chain together with nearly 200 colleagues from natural and engineering sciences. We operate software in our own open source cloud for corporate clients and ourselves, we have our own products in the field of cyber security and ML on the market. In addition, we use software to support unique solutions within the framework of R&D projects.

HighPots also orchestrates an R&D cluster for companies in the DACH region. This consists of over 50 large and medium-sized companies, as well as institutes and universities. In this research cluster, more than 330 people are now working on mostly open-source solutions in the areas of cyber security, Industry 4.0-IoT topics, and automated process vulnerability identification.

At HighPots, machine learning and artificial intelligence are tools used in the development of software and hardware. We use highly specialized AIs. These are far superior in specialized fields to the generative AIs known from the media, such as ChatGPT. Become part of our AI Lab and work with us on the next intelligence explosion of our new expert system.

Areas of responsibility – what you do with us

• Identify and define processes
• Develop options for producing, measuring, and validating data within processes; the utilization and process-oriented further development of the ML components developed by HighPots for this purpose is part of your everyday work
• Qualification of the results of the process ML components and ensuring reproducible quality
• Contribute to the further development of our expert system (Bayes network) by integrating the ML components you have further developed process-wise; for this, you are responsible for knowledge transfer to the software engineers
• Support of the scientific team in the further development of the recommendation system through validated results from the Bayesian network
• Automated real-time improvement of the recommendation system through our deep reinforcement learning model; for this, you also use data from external partners (e.g., telecommunications companies) as training data, which is prepared accordingly by our software engineers
  Implementation of our cyber security recommendation system into our customer’s open source cloud
• Procedural development of the connection to AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
• Usage of our self-hosted LLaMA model for documentation and retrospective validation of our recommendation system, as well as for the preparation of internal and external audits by the BSI
• Support for our teams responsible for security certification (ITSEC & CC)

Qualifications – what you bring with you

• At least 10 years of experience as a Data Scientist
• Deep knowledge in Bayesian statistics
• Sound knowledge in the area of expert systems and their transition to recommendation or assistance systems
• Many years of experience in technical process management
• Knowledge in LaTeX
• Experience in agile environments at the organizational level (SAFe)
• Knowledge about how transformer models work
• Affinity for the topics Cyber Security, Data Backup, and ISMS
• Discipline and perseverance
• Interdisciplinary thinking
• Formal logic
• Quick grasp
• Excellent university degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Business Mathematics, Philosophy with a focus on Logic, or comparable science-oriented subjects
• Studied completed in less time than the standard period of study
• Nice to have: CMMI and Requirements Engineering certifications

What you can expect

• Mentorship Program
• Permanent professional further training and personal development
• High-Tech Computer Lab
• Access to mainframes for simulation and execution of various attack scenarios
• Full team identification with the mission
• Contacts with Cyber Security research departments at almost all well-known corporations in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
• Collaboration with renowned universities and researchers worldwide in the fields of Cyber Security and AI Expert Systems
• Above-average salary
• 50 – 60% of working time remote work, 20 to 30% in the lab, about 10% at the customer site
• 10% of your working time you work freely on a project of your choice

We have neither pinball machines nor table football machines or game consoles. We offer a close intellectual and humanistic team connection with colorful, goal-oriented discussions. We work because we want to work. Because we want to grow beyond ourselves to advance topics that are bigger than any individual or the entire team. We do this in a medium-sized, down-to-earth culture, but with constant contact and touchpoints to the most progressive corporations worldwide as well as to top-tier research institutions in Europe, the USA, Japan, and China.

Next Steps

If you feel addressed, please send us your tabular resume as well as a brief description of the projects that are relevant to the job advertisement.

We will carefully review your documents and provide you with feedback within 1 week at the latest. If the application process continues, we will invite you to a video conference to get to know each other better – both professionally and culturally. At the end of the application process, there will be a short approximately 30-minute test followed by an interview. In the test, you will solve a task on a computer that is within the subject area where you see your strongest competencies. The focus will not be on the result, but on your approach. You may use all resources for the test, including AIs of your choice.

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