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Staff Data Scientist - Digital Intelligence

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead the development of production-grade fraud and identity risk signals by transforming high-scale device, network, browser, mobile, and behavioral telemetry into actionable intelligence.

Role type

Staff Data Scientist (Technical Leadership & Signal Development)

Builds

Production risk signals, models, and feature engineering pipelines for fraud detection and identity verification

Domain

Cybersecurity, Fraud Detection, Digital Identity, Risk Modeling

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Production ML model deployment, Feature engineering, Anomaly detection, Statistical modeling, SQL, Python, Distributed data processing (Spark/PySpark), Model evaluation, Adversarial behavior analysis

Preferred skills

Device intelligence, Behavioral biometrics, Graph-based risk signals, Streaming/low-latency decisioning, Privacy-preserving ML, ML frameworks (TensorFlow/PyTorch)

Technologies

Spark, PySpark, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Lead high-impact ML and feature-development initiatives across device, network, and behavioral intelligence; Own ambiguous fraud and identity risk problems; Develop production risk signals balancing detection and false-positive risk; Build scalable feature-engineering approaches for noisy telemetry; Investigate complex signal patterns like spoofing and proxy usage; Define evaluation methods including drift monitoring and adversarial robustness; Mentor data scientists on problem framing and validation rigor

Seniority

Staff, Technical Leadership & Mentorship

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