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Staff Data Scientist - Trust and Safety
Databricks · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Databricks paid sponsored hires in similar roles8 certified filings for “Data Scientist” (Statisticians) in CA: $153k–$195k, median $153k. Most were filed at wage level II (75%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 445 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 78 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
RDQ426R282 Databricks is building the world's best and most secure platform for data and AI. We innovate and deploy industry-leading solutions in security, compliance, and governance. As a member of the Trust and Safety Data Science team, you will work on projects critical to ensuring the security and compliance of the Databricks Platform. Our customers depend on Databricks to keep their data safe, all while orchestrating millions of virtual machines across three clouds in dozens of regions around the globe. Our engineering teams build highly technical products that fulfill real, important needs in the world. We always push the boundaries of data and AI technology, while simultaneously operating with the security and scale that is critical to making customers successful on our platform. We serve many companies with varying security and compliance needs. To efficiently serve these markets, we need to understand how customers use our existing features. This requires data-driven analysis of all aspects of security programs at Databricks. Customers also trust Databricks with their most valuable data and we have the mission to build the most trusted data analytics and ML platform in the world. We’re looking to expand our Trust and Safety Data Science team. You will join a group of “full stack” data scientists who partner with engineering and security teams, focusing on strategic plans that make Databricks secure and safe for our customers. The team will use statistical and machine learning techniques for fraud and abuse detection on our platforms using state of the art methods . You can read more about some of our efforts in this blog post . The work in fraud and abuse detection is dynamic and essential, offering an opportunity to make a substantial impact in maintaining the security and efficiency of business operations. More information is available at https://www.databricks.com/trust . The impact you will have: • You will develop and implement Machine Learning models to detect anomalous activity in products that we offer. • You will analyze the performance and pricing of security-related features and work with product and engineering teams to identify important opportunities. • You will collaborate with security engineers, trust and safety experts, and machine learning engineers to build a variety of systems and tools that protect Databricks and our customers from threats. • You will create solutions and frameworks to meet compliance requirements at Databricks • You will gather requirements, define project OKRs and milestones, and communicate progress to both technical and non-technical audiences. • You will guide junior data scientists and interns on the team by helping with project planning, technical decisions, and code and document review. • You will represent the data science discipline throughout the organization, using your powerful voice to make us more data-driven. • You will represent Databricks at academic and industrial conferences and events. What we look for: • 7+ years of data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics experience in high-velocity, high-growth companies • Understanding of good software engineering practices around testing, code reviews, and deployment. • Experience working in a highly cross functional alignment and talking about results to non-technical partners. • Experience deploying Data Science / ML solutions in production to achieve results. • Coding skills in SQL and a software development language (preferably Python) • Experience with distributed data processing systems like Spark and familiarity with software engineering principles. • Prior experience applying machine learning and data analytics to identify SaaS product misuse and enhance compliance preferred but no