Fraud Researcher
Core
Lead research into emerging fraud trends, typologies, and attack vectors to keep the company ahead of evolving threats, while supporting the detection, investigation, and mitigation of fraudulent activity across the business.
Role type
Senior IC fraud researcher (quantitative analysis)
Builds
Detection strategies and risk metrics methodologies
Domain
Financial services / Payment fraud prevention
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Statistical techniques, SQL, Python, Pandas, Fraud analysis, Data investigation, Behavioral pattern analysis
Preferred skills
Operational environment experience, Creative thinking, Independent work
Technologies
SQL, Python, Pandas
Responsibilities
Conduct deep-dive analysis across large datasets and historical fraud patterns to uncover fraud rings and behavioral clusters, Track how fraud tactics shift across geographies and payment methods, Translate findings into actionable insights for internal teams building or tuning models, Build and maintain methodologies and processes used to track the company's risk metrics
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
