Research Scientist

About IPinfo

IPinfo is a leading provider of IP address data, including geolocation, VPN and residential proxy detection, mobile carrier data and over 20 other context tags. Our API handles over 120 billion requests a month, and we also license our data for use in many products and services you might have used. We're a fast growing bootstrapped business with a global team of around 60 people, and offer data products including IP geolocation, IP to company, carrier detection, and VPN detection. Our customers include Cloudflare, T-Mobile, SpaceX, DemandBase, Clearbit, and many more. We also sponsor academic conferences such as ACM IMC and ACM CoNEXT to connect with fellow researchers.

How We Work

We have an ambitious team, spread all over the globe. We sync up on a monthly all-hands Zoom call, and most teams do a call together every 1-2 weeks. Everything else happens asynchronously, via Slack, GitHub, Linear, and Notion. That means you can pick the hours that work best for you, to allow you to be at your most productive.

Work within the research team to extract deep knowledge from our data, collaborate with fellow researchers on academic research papers, and discuss ideas at academic Internet measurement conferences.

To thrive in this environment you'll need to have high levels of autonomy and ownership. You have to be resourceful and able to work effectively in a remote setup.

Responsibilities

We collect more than 75TB of Internet data every week, including BGP, DNS, ping and traceroute data from more than 1200 servers around the world. Our research team is at the forefront of analyzing and evaluating this data to ensure it finds its way into our producs - IP geolocation, VPN detection, our IP tags and more. In this role you will be analyzing that data, collaborate with fellow researchers from universities and research institutes, write academic papers and reports based on your analyses, implement measurement and analysis techniques from cutting-edge research, and discuss your findings at academic conferences. Check out https://ipinfo.io/research to find example research projects at IPinfo.

Skills and Experience

• PhD in computer science, data science, statistics, or a related field - or equivalent experience
• Proven experience as a researcher or in a related role
• Publication track record in networking or security conferences (e.g., ACM IMC, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT) or journals (e.g., ACM SIGCOMM CCR, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking)
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go; data analysis using SQL, pandas, or R
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience with data visualization tools and techniques
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, believing it can be done better

What we offer

• Opportunity to make measurable impact and operate with autonomy
• 100% remote team and work environment
• Flexible working hours
• Competitive salary
• Flexible vacation policy
• Interesting and challenging work