# Data Scientist, Fraud Risk

**Company:** [Imprint](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/imprint)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Science
**Salary:** $170k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Snowflake, AWS, Machine Learning, Model Validation, Feature Engineering, Statistical Inference, A/B Testing, Fraud Detection, Identity Verification, Kyc, AML, Model Monitoring, Anomaly Detection
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Owns data science and decisioning for onboarding fraud, identity, and KYC, developing predictive models, experiments, vendor evaluations, and monitoring systems. Requires 5+ years in data science or risk analytics, strong Python and SQL, and experience with adversarial classification problems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own and improve onboarding fraud decisioning across identity verification, KYC controls, application fraud models, policy rules, decline and verification waterfalls, and manual-review strategies.
- Build, validate, deploy, and monitor models detecting identity theft, synthetic identity, first-party fraud, and coordinated application abuse.
- Evaluate third-party fraud and identity vendors, including scores, attributes, lift, coverage, stability, latency, and cost.
- Design and analyze A/B tests, shadow tests, holdouts, and champion/challenger strategies.
- Investigate emerging fraud patterns and decision misses; develop features, rules, models, and review strategies.
- Build monitoring and AI-powered workflows for model drift, population shifts, vendor degradation, data-quality issues, and new attack patterns.
- Partner with Fraud Operations, Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Credit Strategy to productionize changes and communicate recommendations.

## Requirements
- 5–8+ years of experience in data science, risk analytics, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, including modeling, data transformation, and dataset creation from complex financial data.
- Experience building and evaluating predictive models for fraud, identity, KYC, AML, credit risk, trust and safety, or other adversarial classification problems.
- Strong understanding of supervised machine learning, model validation, backtesting, calibration, feature engineering, and production model monitoring.
- Deep understanding of statistical inference and experiment design, including A/B tests, holdouts, champion/challenger tests, causal measurement, and tradeoff analysis.
- Ability to evaluate decision systems using fraud capture, loss rate, false-positive rate, approval impact, verification friction, operational workload, and economic value.
- Ability to trace decisions through raw inputs, vendor responses, model scores, policy rules, and downstream outcomes.
- Experience owning projects from problem definition and exploratory analysis through production implementation, monitoring, and impact measurement.
- Ability to communicate complex analytical findings and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Comfort using AI tools for analysis, investigation, feature development, documentation, and monitoring.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with application or onboarding fraud, identity theft, synthetic identity, first-party fraud, application manipulation, or fraud rings.
- Familiarity with KYC, CIP, identity verification, document verification, device intelligence, behavioral signals, consortium data, credit bureau data, or alternative data sources.
- Experience evaluating and integrating third-party fraud or identity vendors.
- Experience with real-time scoring, decision engines, rules platforms, APIs, or production machine learning systems.
- Experience partnering with fraud operations or investigations teams.
- Familiarity with credit card underwriting, consumer lending, or regulated financial products.
- Experience with graph, anomaly-detection, or weakly supervised methods for coordinated or emerging fraud patterns.

## Technology
- Python
- SQL
- Snowflake
- AWS
- Dashboarding and monitoring tools

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Fully covered healthcare, including dependent coverage.
- One Medical access and an optional FSA.
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for other new parents.
- Technology resources across business units.

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