Senior Fraud Research Analyst
Plaid
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 139,000 - 191,400 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Skills: ["Communication","Pattern synthesis","Hypothesis testing","Root cause analysis"]Lead live fraud investigations at Plaid, reconstructing attacker sequences and translating findings into detection improvements. Operate fraud tooling to detect and validate anomalies, stress-test existing capabilities, and define new detection primitives. Partner with Data Science, ML/AI, and Product to improve labeling, features, evaluation frameworks, and model decay monitoring. Conduct longitudinal research on fraud patterns across the network and produce evidence-backed case studies and post-incident learning.

