Data Scientist
Middesk · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a hands-on engineer to help build the foundation for our AI-driven applications that simplify customer workflows, starting with business onboarding. This role involves applying the right techniques to messy, real-world problems in fraud, risk, and trust domains.
Responsibilities
- Build fraud & risk systems
- Design and ship production systems that detect and prevent fraud across KYB, trust & safety, and compliance workflows
- Work with messy, real-world data
- Tackle problems with extreme class imbalance, sparse signals, evolving adversarial behavior, and limited ground truth
- Leverage relationships in data
- Apply graph-based approaches and entity resolution techniques to uncover hidden connections and improve risk detection
- Improve signal & labeling
- Use a mix of heuristics, weak supervision, and modern AI tools (including LLMs where appropriate) to generate better features and labels
- Help scale our infrastructure
- Partner with engineering to build and evolve systems for feature generation, model training, and production deployment across multiple use cases
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in fraud, risk, or trust & safety
- You've worked on real-world fraud or abuse problems and understand the domain deeply
- Experience building and shipping production systems
- You’ve deployed models or data-driven systems that power external-facing products
- Strong foundation in applied ML or data systems
- Comfortable working on classification problems with real-world constraints like imbalanced data, sparse signals, and changing patterns
- Experience with graph or relational data approaches
- Familiarity with knowledge graphs, network analysis, or entity linking is strongly preferred
- Hands-on and pragmatic
- You focus on impact over perfection and know how to balance speed, accuracy, and maintainability