Job Description
About The Role
As a Lead Data Scientist for our Fraud team, you will protect our company and customers through machine learning, statistics, and data analysis. You will design, build, and deploy models that detect and prevent fraudulent activity in real‑time, translating directly into the protection of millions of dollars and a trustworthy platform for our users.
Responsibilities
- Define the long‑term machine‑learning strategy for the fraud team, establish best practices, and mentor junior data scientists.
- Own the entire lifecycle of fraud‑detection models: data exploration, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
- Design and develop models for lending‑fraud typologies, including synthetic identity fraud, first‑party loan default fraud, and application fraud.
- Conduct deep‑dive investigations into emerging fraud patterns using clustering, outlier detection, network analysis, and other unsup...