Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Risk
Investigate fake and duplicate signups, bonus farming, wash trading, collusion, and market manipulation. Combine on-chain, device, and behavioral signals to build detections, quantify financial exposure, create monitoring and alerts, support onboarding and compliance controls, and document detection logic.
Responsibilities
- Investigate and quantify abuse across the funnel.
- Build detection logic using on-chain, device, and behavioral signals.
- Turn investigations into recurring monitoring, reporting, and alerting.
- Size financial exposure for each abuse vector.
- Partner with product on onboarding, verification, and bonus controls.
- Support compliance investigations, escalations, and regulatory reporting.
- Promote detection logic into the modeled layer.
- Document detection thresholds and rationale.
Requirements
- 7+ years in risk, fraud analytics, trust and safety, or a similar investigative analytical role.
- Expert SQL and pattern recognition across behavioral datasets.
- Experience building detection rules or models.
- Sound judgment regarding false positives, missed abuse, and user impact.
- Ability to work with compliance and handle sensitive findings.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience with on-chain analysis, wallet clustering, blockchain forensics, trade surveillance, market manipulation detection, AML, anomaly detection, graph analysis, clustering, Python, or R is a plus.
- Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health coverage
- Full vision coverage
- Full dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories