Remote Senior Data Scientist - Fraud Analytics

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 118,534 - 162,751; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Referral program

Vision insurance

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to design, deploy, and scale ML models for fraud analytics supporting a federal OIG program. You will work with investigators and data engineers to turn large datasets into actionable case leads and clear visualizations.

The role emphasizes collaboration, governance, and producing predictive insights with NLP, OCR, and text analytics. Telework is authorized with occasional on-site meetings as requested.

Qualifications

• Doctorate or 10 years of applied work experience in data science, ML, CS, math, or related field
• 5+ years designing, implementing, and maintaining AI systems and predictive models
• 3+ years providing data support for criminal investigations into fraud or abuse
• 2+ years developing and scaling NLP solutions
• Proficiency in Python (Pandas), SQL, and cloud environments (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Experience presenting methods and findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced ML models to identify fraud and non-compliance
• Perform data quality analysis on source tables to surface abnormalities
• Build and refine processes for large relational and unstructured datasets
• Develop predictive models using regression, Bayesian, clustering, and ensemble methods
• Collaborate with investigators to shape analytic strategy and handle protected information
• Integrate NLP methods to parse large text corpora and scale models
• Create dashboards and visualizations communicating methodology and results
• Document methodology, tests, and production models for evidentiary requirements
• Deliver investigative findings in data summaries and executive briefings
• Create automation using Python, SQL, SharePoint, Excel, and Power BI

Skills

Pandas

Python

Statistics

Machine learning

SQL

NLP

Education

Doctorate

Tools

Pandas

Python

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Azure

AWS

GCP

Power BI

SharePoint

Excel

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring a Senior Data Scientist to design, deploy, and scale ML models for fraud analytics supporting a federal OIG program. You will work with investigators and data engineers to turn large datasets into actionable case leads and clear visualizations.

The role emphasizes collaboration, governance, and producing predictive insights with NLP, OCR, and text analytics. Telework is authorized with occasional on-site meetings as requested.