Remote Lead ML Scientist – FinCrime & Real-Time Detection

Monzo; United States; Remote; USD 153,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation to UK

Visa sponsorship

Flexible working hours

Learning budget £1000 a year

Distributed UK working

Job summary

Monzo is seeking a Lead Machine Learning Scientist to architect and deploy advanced ML models at scale to combat financial crime. You will work within a fast-moving fintech environment, collaborating across product squads, data science, and MLOps to deliver measurable business impact.

You will own end-to-end ML solutions, mentor teammates, and help set best practices for production ML. The role offers UK-wide distributed working with relocation and visa sponsorship options.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading the development and deployment of advanced ML models to tackle real business problems.
• Experience developing and shipping deep learning, graph-based, and sequence-based ML architectures to production.
• Strong ability to own end-to-end product problems with measurable impact.
• Proactive, self-starter mindset with ability to operate in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of real-time ML models for financial crime detection.
• Provide technical leadership and raise standards across the ML discipline.
• Mentor teammates and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, backend engineers and MLOps.
• Work with stakeholders to identify impactful ML opportunities in Financial Crime and Fraud.

Skills

Machine Learning

Python

SQL

Go

Job description

Monzo is seeking a Lead Machine Learning Scientist to architect and deploy advanced ML models at scale to combat financial crime. You will work within a fast-moving fintech environment, collaborating across product squads, data science, and MLOps to deliver measurable business impact.

You will own end-to-end ML solutions, mentor teammates, and help set best practices for production ML. The role offers UK-wide distributed working with relocation and visa sponsorship options.