CareerPlan

Data Scientist - AML Analytics & Modeling

USAFull-time$86k–$173k2026-11-10
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Build and deploy machine learning models to detect suspicious patterns, risk indicators, and potential business outcomes in customer and transaction data for anti-money-laundering purposes.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (AML analytics & modeling)

Builds

Production ML models and data-driven solutions for fraud and AML detection

Domain

Financial services / Anti-money laundering

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, PySpark, SQL, statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, model validation, data mining, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Preferred skills

Banking/financial services experience, fraud/AML modeling experience, neural networks, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Technologies

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Python, PySpark, SQL, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Responsibilities

Analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to produce actionable business insights; Gather, process, mine, and analyze customer, account, and transaction data from varied sources; Create datasets and samples, build statistical and machine-learning models, and monitor, document, and report on models; Apply methods such as logistic regression, clustering, gradient boosting, neural networks, and other machine-learning algorithms to identify suspicious patterns, risk indicators, and potential business outcomes; Run analytical experiments to identify opportunities to improve products, processes, and existing strategies, and recommend new approaches; Communicate findings and progress on modeling initiatives to senior executives and business partners, using appropriate visualizations and data storytelling; Lead innovative anti-money-laundering analytics projects and help develop data-driven solutions.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC