Fraud Detection Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $70/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Fraud Detection Expert for a remote contract role. You will build enterprise fraud scenarios and oversee multi-stakeholder investigations for large-scale financial transactions.

The role emphasizes ownership of fraud programs and fluency with leading detection tooling across AML, regulatory reporting, and incident management. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in fraud or AML at a Fortune 500 institution, deep knowledge of SAS, Actimize, and Feedzai, and experience documenting

Qualifications

• 5+ years in fraud detection, financial crimes investigation, or AML at a Fortune 500 bank or financial institution.
• Direct ownership of F500-scale fraud detection programs or transaction monitoring systems.
• Fluency in enterprise fraud detection tooling and methodologies.
• Understanding of F500 regulatory reporting, law enforcement coordination, and case escalation.

Responsibilities

• Construct enterprise fraud scenarios for large-scale transaction monitoring and multi-stakeholder investigations.
• Build tasks across payment fraud, account takeover, AML, synthetic identity fraud, and merchant/card network fraud.
• Develop fraud operations scenarios using SAS Fraud Management, Actimize, Feedzai, and case management platforms.
• Apply fraud detection methodologies including rules-based and ML-driven models, network/link analysis, and KYC/AML frameworks.
• Author rubrics distinguishing authentic enterprise fraud judgment from rote memorization.

Skills

Fraud detection

Financial crimes investigation

AML compliance

Regulatory reporting

Enterprise FRM tools

Tools

SAS Fraud Management

Actimize

Feedzai

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Fraud Detection Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$70/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Construct enterprise fraud scenarios for large-scale transaction monitoring, multi-stakeholder investigation workflows, and complex regulatory reporting cycles at Fortune 500 institutions.
• Build tasks across payment fraud , account takeover , identity theft , anti-money laundering (AML) , synthetic identity fraud , and merchant/card network fraud .
• Develop fraud operations scenarios using tools such as SAS Fraud Management , Actimize , Feedzai , and enterprise case management/transaction monitoring platforms.
• Apply enterprise fraud detection methodologies, including rules-based and ML-driven detection models , network/link analysis , KYC/AML frameworks , and BSA compliance .
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise fraud investigation judgment from generic textbook or certification-exam-level recall.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years in fraud detection, financial crimes investigation, or AML compliance at a Fortune 500 bank or financial institution.
• Direct ownership of F500-scale fraud detection programs or transaction monitoring systems.
• Fluency in enterprise fraud detection tooling and methodologies.
• Understanding of F500 regulatory reporting, law enforcement coordination, and case escalation.

Preferred

• Prior rubric, fraud-investigation training curriculum, or case documentation authorship.