Senior Data Scientist – Document Verification & Fraud ML

Socure

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 191,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Socure is seeking a highly technical Senior Data Scientist to drive ML innovation for the Document Verification platform. You will develop production ML models and partner with product, engineering, Fraud Operations, and Data Science to build scalable evaluation and automation frameworks.

The role emphasizes model evaluation, instrumentation, and analytics to improve fraud detection, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

Qualifications

MS/PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, fraud analytics, or product analytics.
Strong experience developing and evaluating production ML models.
Expert SQL and Python skills.
Experience with Databricks, Spark, AWS Sagemaker, or similar platforms.
Strong understanding of experimentation, statistical analysis, and ML evaluation.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and improve ML models for document verification, fraud detection, image quality assessment, biometric verification, and related use cases.
Research new features, modeling approaches, and fraud detection techniques to improve production performance.
Partner with Engineering to deploy, monitor, and continuously improve production models.
Analyze product performance, fraud trends, customer behavior, and emerging attack vectors.