Technical Research Consultant (Identity Verification)

Dashdevs; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 billable days off

25 billable days off

Competitive compensation

Friendly team

Clear processes

Q&A sessions

Job summary

Dashdevs is seeking a Technical Research Consultant for identity verification to work with the product team and US‑based colleagues. You will move quickly from concept to evidence, test providers, and build prototypes.

You will evaluate Plaid‑like providers, national eIDs, and document verification vendors, producing clear, defensible recommendations and executable test results for security and compliance.

Qualifications

• Strong hands‑on experience consuming third‑party APIs and SDKs.
• Excellent technical research skills and disciplined evaluation.
• Translating ambiguous business questions into structured criteria.
• Strong written communication for executives and engineers.
• Presenting findings to Product, Engineering and Compliance.
• High agency and ability to work independently in shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Research identity verification, eID, document verification, biometric and fraud‑detection vendors, focusing on regions with weak coverage.
• Integrate vendor APIs/SDKs in sandbox environments and build lightweight PoCs.
• Assess production readiness: onboarding, licensing, terms and geographic constraints.
• Research country‑specific identity ecosystems and regulatory/privacy constraints.
• Monitor vendor changes and automate routine research where possible.
• Present findings and demos to Product, Engineering and Compliance stakeholders.

Skills

APIs & SDKs

Tech research

Executive communication

Vendor evaluation

Independent work

US time overlap

Job description

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Technical Research Consultant (Identity Verification)

Full time

Position overview

We expect a new team member to work independently and proactively: discover information on their own when documentation is incomplete, dig into unfamiliar APIs, and turn research into clear, well-argued conclusions. Strong communication skills are essential, since you will present results to the product team and work closely with US-based colleagues.

The ideal candidate must move quickly from an identity-verification concept to evidence. Find the right providers and data sources, test them hands‑on, document market and regulatory constraints, and give Product clear recommendations backed by working prototypes and traceable research.

General project descriptionThe project offers a biometric‑based identity verification and passwordless multi‑factor authentication (MFA) platform with a privacy‑by‑design architecture centered around a private and permissioned distributed ledger. The platform generates a non‑phishable multi‑factor authentication credential for employees while giving customers a convenient passwordless option for strong authentication to prevent fraud. Because all personally identifiable information (PII) is public/private key encrypted and the user maintains sole possession and access to the private key without third‑party intermediaries, PII is always stored and managed in compliance with data privacy mandates and is never exposed in the clear. The platform’s innovative architecture combines live biometrics, machine verification of government credentials, a portable digital identity wallet, a private, permissioned ledger, and verified reusable digital credentials. Combined, these capabilities eliminate the identity gap in conventional Single Sign‑On (SSO) and MFA. They remove the compromise between security and convenience by reducing transaction friction while verifying identity at every access or service request. An immutable chain of custody provides tamper‑evident digital identity and verified credentials for unmatched trust.

The size and the structure of the teamYou will be a part of the product team, working closely with product managers and engineers on the client side.

Example first tasksEvaluating Plaid‑like bank verification providers, researching Singpass and other national eIDs, testing document verification vendors for Southeast Asia, and prototyping deepfake detection tools.

YOUR BACKGROUND

• Strong hands‑on experience consuming third‑party APIs and SDKs. You can go from documentation to a working test without needing a full engineering team.
• Excellent technical research skills and the discipline to distinguish primary evidence, independent testing, vendor marketing claims, and your own conclusions.
• Experience translating ambiguous business questions into structured evaluation criteria and defensible recommendations.
• Strong written communication. Your research should be concise enough for an executive while detailed enough for an engineer to reproduce the work.
• Experience presenting technical findings to Product, walking Engineering through API test results, and discussing regulatory constraints with Security or Compliance.
• High agency and comfort working independently in an environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Dependable collaboration overlap with the U.S. Eastern time zone.
• Experience in identity verification, KYC/KYB, fraud prevention, biometrics, digital identity, cybersecurity, fintech, payments, or trust and safety.
• Previous experience preferred: Identity verification, authentication, KYC / AML, or fintech solutions.

Skills that will be a plus:

• Familiarity with government eID programs, mobile driver licenses, authoritative identity data, document verification, or identity‑assurance standards.
• Experience evaluating biometric, liveness, presentation‑attack, deepfake, or document‑fraud technology.
• Experience researching international privacy, data‑residency, consent, identity, or digital‑government requirements.
• Experience building AI‑assisted research agents, monitoring pipelines, web‑scraping or change‑detection workflows, or other research automation.
• Prior work in consulting, product management, solutions engineering, technical product research, or technical competitive intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Research identity verification, eID, document verification, biometric and fraud‑detection vendors, with a focus on regions where global providers have weak coverage (e.g., Southeast Asia).
• Integrate vendor APIs and SDKs in sandbox environments and build lightweight PoCs to show how each solution works, how hard it is to integrate and where it fails.
• Assess whether vendors are production‑ready, including onboarding, approvals, licensing, geographic restrictions and commercial terms.
• Research country‑specific identity ecosystems (e.g., Singpass and other national eIDs), plus the regulatory and privacy constraints that affect integration.
• Monitor vendor coverage, API changes and new document templates, and automate routine research where possible.
• Build vendor scorecards and recommend whether to integrate, partner or defer, backed by clear evidence.
• Present findings and demos to Product, Engineering and Compliance stakeholders.

WE OFFER

• 20 billable days off in the first year of cooperation, all next years - 25 billable days off
• Fair and competitive compensation
• Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
• Clearly described business processes in the company that really work
• Regular updates on company news, Q&A sessions with top management
• Ability to transfer unused vacation to the next year