Staff Data Scientist - Digital Intelligence

Socure
San Francisco, Seattle, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 191,000 - 230,000 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 12+ yearsEducation: mastersSkills: ["Critical thinking","Communication","Mentorship","Ownership","Technical leadership"]

Lead technical development of fraud and identity risk signals for the Digital Intelligence team, turning noisy, high-scale device, network, browser, mobile, API, and behavioral telemetry into production-grade models. Own ambiguous, adversarial problems end-to-end—evaluation design, signal strategy, feature engineering, model monitoring, and rollout—while partnering with engineering, product, risk, and platform teams and mentoring other data scientists.

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Staff Data Scientist - Digital Intelligence

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Job Summary

Lead technical development of fraud and identity risk signals for the Digital Intelligence team, turning noisy, high-scale device, network, browser, mobile, API, and behavioral telemetry into production-grade models. Own ambiguous, adversarial problems end-to-end—evaluation design, signal strategy, feature engineering, model monitoring, and rollout—while partnering with engineering, product, risk, and platform teams and mentoring other data scientists.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead high-impact machine learning and feature-development initiatives across device, network, browser, mobile, session, and behavioral intelligence.
  • •Own ambiguous fraud and identity risk problems, evaluating data quality, label reliability, adversarial behavior, customer impact, and product tradeoffs together.
  • •Develop production risk signals and models balancing fraud detection, false-positive risk, coverage, latency, explainability, robustness, and operational maintainability.
  • •Investigate complex signal patterns including spoofing, emulator behavior, automation, proxy/VPN usage, low-entropy fingerprints, telemetry gaps, device fragmentation, and over-linkage risk.
  • •Define evaluation methods for signals (holdout design, leakage checks, drift monitoring, adversarial robustness, customer impact analysis, long-term stability) and communicate results/tradeoffs while mentoring others.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 191,000 - 230,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
  • •12+ years of experience in data science, applied machine learning, statistical modeling, or related technical roles.
  • •Significant experience building, deploying, validating, and improving production machine learning models, risk signals, or decisioning systems.
  • •Strong background in fraud detection and identity verification, including trust and safety and adversarial data domains.
  • •Expert-level SQL and strong proficiency in Python with distributed data processing frameworks such as Spark or PySpark.
Experience:12+ yearsDigital identity verificationFraud detectionMachine learningRisk modelingTrust and safety
Education:Master's
Skills:Critical thinkingCommunicationMentorshipOwnershipTechnical leadership
Tech Stack:PythonSQLSparkPySparkScikit-learnXGBoostTensorFlowPyTorch

Company Brief

Socure
Provides AI-driven digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions that analyze device, behavioral, and contextual data to detect synthetic identities, stop account takeover, and enable secure onboarding for banks, fintechs, and enterprises.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2012
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