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Associate Data Scientist

Washington DC💼 Full-time💰 $100,000–$100,000🗓 2026-02-19 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build ML-driven solutions for financial crimes risk management, combining internal and public data to assess risk in KYC, CDD, Fraud Risk Management, and AML processes.

Role type

Associate Data Scientist (IC)

Builds

Production ML models and NLP pipelines for financial institutions and government agencies

Domain

Financial Services / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Fraud Detection

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Statistics, Machine Learning, Python, SQL, PySpark, NLP, Large Language Models (LLMs), Model Validation, Software Engineering (Scala)

Preferred skills

Applied NLP methods (topic modeling, text classification, word embeddings, named entity extraction), Random Forests, Boosting, Neural Networks

Technologies

Python, Scala, Java, R, SQL, Spark, PySpark, LLMs

Responsibilities

Perform exploratory data analysis and model training; Write complex pipeline code involving NLP enrichment; Productionize models in a Scala codebase; Validate models using standard and custom performance metrics; Leverage LLMs to scale data science tasks; Participate in code reviews

Seniority

Associate, early-career IC

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