Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence. As a Data Scientist, you will build core products that identify fraudsters and advance financial risk products, gaining hands-on experience across the full machine learning lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain SentiLink’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring
- Build foundational modeling to drive SentiLink’s expanding suite of Fraud and Financial Risk products
- Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification
- Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources and inventive feature engineering
- Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision making by our partners
- Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts
- Work with engineering, risk operations, and data acquisitions to access necessary data, maintain data quality, and support data access
Skills
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field or equivalent experience/research
- Strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, or applied data science
- Experience with Python and common data science tools through coursework, research, internships, or personal projects
- Demonstrated ability to analyze complex problems and build data-driven solutions
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical ideas clearly
- Interest in learning deeply about fraud, identity, and financial risk systems
- Ability to write clean, maintainable code
- Strong attention to detail and curiosity about real-world data problems
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States
- Thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems
Benefits
- Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
- 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
- Flexible paid time off
- Regular company-wide in-person events
- Home office stipend, and more!
Company Overview
SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities. It was founded in 2017, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.sentilink.com.