Staff Data Scientist (Financial Crime AI)

Location: Singapore

Company

Airwallex provides integrated payments, business accounts, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions for global businesses.

What you will do

• Lead the data science strategy for AML and financial crime risk controls across Risk Product.
• Develop proactive detection capabilities for emerging threats, suspicious behavior, control gaps, and unknown financial crime patterns.
• Build and scale AI-powered screening, graph and network intelligence, entity resolution, and machine learning solutions.
• Advance name screening, transaction monitoring, and detection of coordinated activity, fraud, and financial crime rings.
• Partner with Risk Product, Engineering, Financial Crime Compliance, and Risk Operations to deliver scalable production controls.
• Influence the product roadmap, establish reusable frameworks, and mentor Risk Data Science practitioners.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, applied AI, risk analytics, or a related quantitative field, with Staff, Lead, or equivalent scope.
• Strong expertise in applied machine learning and modern AI, including building and productionizing data-driven solutions at scale.
• Experience with NLP or LLMs, entity resolution, information retrieval, graph or network analytics, anomaly detection, or risk scoring.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across Product, Engineering, Risk, Operations, and Compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, marketplaces, or other regulated or high-risk domains.
• Experience with AML, sanctions, PEP screening, adverse media, fraud, trust and safety, or transaction monitoring.
• Experience building name screening or adverse media systems.
• Familiarity with LLM evaluation, prompt and model experimentation, retrieval quality assessment, and AI observability.
• Experience applying graph analytics to detect mule networks, collusive behavior, coordinated account activity, or interconnected high-risk entities.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with cross-functional partners across Risk Product, Engineering, Compliance, and Operations.
• Operate with high ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and a focus on measurable impact.
• Contribute to a global financial platform serving more than 250,000 businesses.