Senior Data Scientist

Summary

Join Signifyd's Data Science team and build production machine learning models that form the core of our product, helping businesses minimize fraud exposure and grow sales. You will have end-to-end ownership of our decisioning engine, from research and development to online performance and risk management. The team values collaboration and team ownership, fostering skill development through peer review, group study, and knowledge-sharing. We have a strong contingent of remote workers, and the challenges of remote work are well understood and addressed. You will be directly responsible for the performance of enterprise merchants, research real-time fraud patterns, improve components of the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform, and communicate complex ideas to various audiences.

Requirements

• A degree in computer science or a comparable analytical field
• 5+ years of post-undergrad work experience required
• Experience leading projects
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong machine learning and statistical background and a track record of being able to deliver under pressure
• Write code and review others' in a shared codebase in Python
• Practical SQL knowledge
• Design experiments and collect data
• Familiarity with the Linux command line

Responsibilities

• Be directly responsible for the performance of enterprise merchants with household names
• Research real-time new fraud patterns with our Risk Intelligence team
• Improve the important components of the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform
• Communicate complex ideas to a variety of audiences, including executives
• Build production machine learning models that identify fraud
• Write production and offline analytical code in Python
• Work with distributed data pipelines
• Collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen our machine-learning pipeline

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous work in fraud, payments, or e-commerce
• Data analysis in a distributed environment
• Passion for writing well-tested production-grade code
• A Master's Degree or PhD

Benefits

• Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!)
• Talkspace Online Therapy Membership
• Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly
• 401K Match
• Stock Options
• Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions
• Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)
• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Company Social Events
• Signifyd Swag