Senior Data Scientist, ML— Fraud Detection & Effectiveness

Senior Data Scientist, ML— Fraud Detection & Effectiveness

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Senior
Machine Learning Data Scientist to build fraud and abuse detection models and measure how effectively they work. This role combines hands-on modeling with deep experimentation, evaluation, and analytics to improve detection and quantify business impact.

You will work across the fraud lifecycle — from modeling and ground-truth definition to performance measurement, monitoring, and executive-ready insights!

• Build and tune ML models for fraud and abuse detection using statistical and classical ML techniques.
• Develop robust evaluation frameworks, datasets, and metrics to measure model and mitigation effectiveness.
• Analyze false positives/negatives, model drift, and emerging fraud patterns to continuously improve detection.
• Define ground truth, labeling approaches, and fraud taxonomies that support reliable model development and evaluation.
• Design experiments and evaluate tradeoffs across precision, recall, customer impact, and fraud loss.
• Build dashboards and metrics that translate detection performance into measurable business impact.
• Pressure-test models and data for leakage, bias, data-quality issues, and other sources of misleading results.
• Partner across engineering, product, policy, and risk teams to turn insights into detection improvements and business decisions.

• 8+ years in applied Data Science / ML, with experience building and evaluating production ML models.
• Strong foundation in statistical and classical ML, experimentation, model evaluation, and performance measurement.
• Strong hands‑on Python and SQL skills working with large, complex datasets.
• Experience with model monitoring, drift, false-positive/false-negative analysis, and imperfect or delayed labels.
• Strong data visualization and storytelling skills — able to translate complex analysis into clear insights and recommendations.
• Strong analytical judgment, ownership, and ability to operate independently through ambiguity.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent experience in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree a plus.

• Experience in fraud, abuse, risk, identity, trust & safety, or other adversarial domains.
• Experience with anomaly detection, clustering, behavioral modeling, or prevalence estimation.
• Experience with labeling frameworks, weak supervision, active learning, or human-review systems.
• Familiarity with LLMs and AI-assisted evaluation/analysis.
• Experience evaluating multi-layered risk controls and automated decisioning systems.

Hybrid Work Model:
This role follows a hybrid schedule, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office.

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