Data Scientist - Full Stack

Senti Link provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States, replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. Senti Link’s real‑time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets.

The company is backed by world‑class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin, and has earned recognition from Tech Crunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, and Lend It. Senti Link is a digital‑first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India, and maintains physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India.

As a Data Scientist 2 at Senti Link, you will build our core products: models that identify fraudsters and advance our growing suite of financial risk products. As an experienced researcher, you will be technically capable and the definitive owner of your domain, working on high‑visibility projects that require deep domain understanding, critical thinking, and strong technical abilities. You will collaborate across the company to research new types of fraud, develop new products, and provide analysis to drive sales and marketing.

This is a full‑stack data science role, involving model development, analysis, and writing production code, with end‑to‑end ownership in a fast‑moving environment.

Python 3, Postgre

SQL, and AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, etc.)

• Develop and maintain Senti Link’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: data acquisition decisions, featurization, labeling, training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring.
• Research new types of fraud and develop new Senti Link products around identity verification.
• Build foundational modeling to drive Senti Link’s expanding suite of fraud and financial risk products.
• Iterate through research, integration of new data sources, and inventive feature engineering to achieve success.
• Write production‑ready code that can be relied on for real‑time decision making by our partners.
• Design, perform, and present analyses that inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts.
• Collaborate with engineering, risk operations, and data acquisitions to access necessary data, maintain data quality, and support data access.

• 2+ years relevant work experience & relevant PhD or 4+ years & relevant Masters.
• Proven track record of solving complex / high‑profile business problems with DS / ML solutions.
• Experience communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders.
• Very strong in end‑to‑end DS development: planning, defining success criteria / metrics, obtaining buy‑in, delivering solutions (prod / deck / strategy doc / etc.).
• Strong practical ML / Stats knowledge; familiarity with SOTA ML solutions is a plus.
• Interest in developing deep domain expertise for product‑focused work; background in fraud is not required, willingness to learn is essential.
• Experience writing production code and tests.
• Detail oriented and thoughtful – someone we can rely on to make business‑changing decisions.
• Experience working at a startup.
• Bonus for familiarity with identity solutions, fintech, or adjacent industries.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States.
• Thrives in a fast‑paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high‑impact, open‑ended problems.

$160,000/year – $210,000/year + equity + benefits

• Employer‑paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non‑US‑based roles)
• Flexible paid time off
• Regular company‑wide in‑person events
• Home office stipend, and more!

• Follow Through
• Deep Understanding
• Whatever It Takes
• Do Something Smart

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Software Development