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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

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