Data Scientist - Security Validation&Penetration Testing - Limited employment up to 6 months (f/m/d)

What You’ll Build

Your mission starts here: Where Data Science meets Cybersecurity

Welcome to the front line of security at SAP. We are the Security Validation & Offensive Security Testing unit - a team united by one powerful mission: keeping SAP's trusted products secure.

We do this in two ways:

• We Build Security In: We're the expert partners for our development teams, ensuring every new product release meets the highest security standards.
• We Hack Ourselves First: As an elite team of ethical hackers, we perform advanced penetration tests and "Red Team" missions to uncover potential weaknesses.

This is where your journey begins. We're looking for a data-driven innovator to be our secret weapon. You will dive into our rich security data, using your analytical skills to uncover patterns, create powerful insights, and build intelligent tools. You won't just be running reports; you will influence how we approach product security, making our entire organization smarter and safer.

Join us and turn data into your most powerful tool in the fight for a secure digital world.

Your Mission:

• Turn data into our strongest asset. Apply practical data science approaches to unlock the full potential of our existing data landscape.
• Drive smarter decisions. Create sharp, targeted reports that empower every stakeholder—from engineers to executives—to act with confidence.
• Unlock hidden insights. Design and build machine learning models autonomously, emphasizing clustering techniques to reveal hidden patterns within our datasets.

Learning & Development Opportunities:

You will be part of the last line of defense (pre-delivery phase) in the product security area and get to know the newest attack patterns on SAP’s products in the field (post-delivery phase)

• You learn how SAP handles the high risks of vulnerabilities and product weaknesses
• You work directly hands-on with critical and impactful data in a confidential universe
• You have the freedom of exploration, innovation, experimentation – discover new ways and ideas to enrich our data landscape and secure our products
• Your work will have real impact and will directly influence the way how we protect SAP

Why This Role Will Transform Your Career:

• Stand on the front line. Be part of the last defense before delivery and the first to analyze real-world attacks on SAP's products in production.
• Shape elite data: Pioneer innovative insights that accelerate faster, more transparent decisions across the organization.
• Innovate without limits. Experiment, explore, and pioneer new approaches to data science in security—your ideas shape our future.
• Drive real-world impact: Deliver data-driven insights that directly strengthen how we safeguard SAP – and help protect the software powering the world economy.

Ready to secure the future? Your journey starts here.

What You’ll Bring

• Demonstrated experience in data science and analytics including the development of reports/dashboards for multiple stakeholder groups in the field product security and vulnerability management
• Hands-on experience in designing and building machine learning models
• Good proficiency in Python
• Skilled in transforming raw data into business and security insights, including predictive analytics with a sharp eye for errors, inconsistencies and dependencies in raw data
• Bringing a natural curiosity and a proactive investigative spirit to work, constantly and proactively hunting for patterns, trends, and undiscovered value within data
• Interest in touching and learning about cross-topics off Security Validation, Penetration Testing/ Customer Penetration Testing
• Excellent communication in Business English and German and interest in translating complex analytical findings and models into a clear, compelling story for both technical and non-technical audiences

Where You Belong

Customers rely on SAP delivering trustworthy secure products, and they expect SAP to maintain the security of their software and the ability to operate this software securely and in a legally compliant way over the software lifecycle.

As part of the board area Products & Innovation and the central SAP Global Security team, the Security Validation team provides central services and infrastructure supporting the SAP Secure Software Development Lifecycle.

Security Validation performs independent security assessments on our software via a risk based approach from a customer’s point of view (= acting as first customer), using state-of-the-art standard and custom tools and methods.

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript of records, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and if available, references from former employers (including internships). Please also describe your experience and skills in foreign languages and computer programs / programming languages.

This is a SAP global, strategic, paid, limited placement that provides candidates with opportunities to find purpose in their careers.