Senior Data Scientist – Identity Graph & KYC R&D

Socure; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy—verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. As a Senior Data Scientist I, you’ll lead design and deployment of ML and graph algorithms on massive PII datasets, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Client teams to ship production-grade models with measurable impact.

You’ll mentor junior data scientists, define feature engineering standards, run A/B experiments, and contribute

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field with hands-on ML experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills plus experience with large-scale data systems.
• Familiarity with graph databases and production ML pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evaluate ML and graph-based algorithms on large-scale PII data.
• Lead experiments (A/B tests) and validate models before rollout.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Client teams; drive feature engineering standards.
• Mentor junior data scientists and contribute to governance and documentation.

Skills

Python

Spark

Scala

Machine learning

Graph algorithms

SQL

Experiment design

Leadership

Education

Master’s degree in CS/Statistics/Math

Ph.D. in a related field

Tools

Spark/Databricks

Airflow

Neo4j

TensorFlow / PyTorch

Job description

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy—verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. As a Senior Data Scientist I, you’ll lead design and deployment of ML and graph algorithms on massive PII datasets, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Client teams to ship production-grade models with measurable impact.

You’ll mentor junior data scientists, define feature engineering standards, run A/B experiments, and contribute