Senior Remote Fraud Risk Detection Scientist

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great compensation package and bonus

Medical, dental, vision

401K matching

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Experian is seeking a Data Scientist to build fraud detection models and features that identify high-risk activity while minimizing friction for legitimate customers. You will collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers from problem definition through feature engineering, experimentation, and deployment.

The role emphasizes production-ready code, model evaluation, and data privacy governance, with remote work flexibility across the United States.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in data science, ML, or quantitative field.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Experience with supervised learning, model evaluation, and feature selection.

Responsibilities

• Build fraud detection models and features to identify high-risk activity.
• Collaborate with senior data scientists from problem definition to deployment.
• Develop and validate features using identity, transactional, and behavioral data.
• Evaluate models with precision, recall, and business metrics.
• Write clean, tested code and bring models into production.

Skills

Data science

Python

Pandas

NumPy

Scikit-learn

PySpark

Supervised learning

Anomaly detection

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Experian is seeking a Data Scientist to build fraud detection models and features that identify high-risk activity while minimizing friction for legitimate customers. You will collaborate with senior data scientists and engineers from problem definition through feature engineering, experimentation, and deployment.

The role emphasizes production-ready code, model evaluation, and data privacy governance, with remote work flexibility across the United States.