# Staff Data Scientist, Full Stack

**Company:** [SentiLink](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sentilink)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Postgres, AWS, EC2, S3, Rds, Redshift, Machine Learning, Fraud Detection, Feature Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-03-13

> Build and maintain fraud detection models and financial risk products through full data science lifecycle, including production code. Requires 6+ years experience (or 8+ with Masters), advanced ML/stats skills, and PhD preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain fraud detection models through full lifecycle: data acquisition, featurization, labeling, training, experimentation, productionalization, monitoring.
- Build foundational modeling for expanding Fraud and Financial Risk products.
- Research new fraud types and develop identity verification products.
- Achieve success through iteration, new data sources, and inventive feature engineering.
- Write production-ready code for real-time decisions.
- Design, perform, and present analyses for data acquisition, product development, risk operations, marketing, and sales.
- Collaborate with engineering, risk operations, and data teams for data access and quality.

## Requirements
- 6+ years relevant experience & PhD **or** 8+ years & Masters.
- Proven track record solving complex business problems with DS/ML.
- Experience communicating to senior stakeholders.
- Strong end-to-end DS development: planning, metrics, buy-in, delivery.
- Strong practical ML/Stats knowledge; SOTA ML a plus.
- Interest in deep domain expertise (fraud/financial risk).
- Experience writing production code and tests.
- Detail-oriented for business-changing decisions.
- Bonus: identity solutions, fintech experience, startup experience.
- Thrive in fast-paced, varied, high-impact environment.

## Compensation
$200,000 - $240,000/year + equity + benefits (health insurance, 401k match, PTO, etc.).

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