Senior Financial Crime Compliance Investigator (AI)

Location: Hybrid, with the HQ in New York, NY; nationwide hiring is indicated, with relocation expense coverage to NYC or San Francisco if needed.

Target base salary: $160,000–$220,000 for San Francisco/New York or $145,000–$200,000 nationwide, plus equity.

Company

Ramp builds financial infrastructure that automates payment authorization, risk detection, spend categorization, and accounting for businesses.

What you will do

• Partner with Engineering and FCC Tooling leadership on AI and automation initiatives across transaction monitoring, sanctions, complex fraud, and enhanced due diligence.
• Move model-evaluation work from one-off calibration exercises to defined, repeatable processes.
• Design and run labeling and tagging workflows for model outputs, including transaction-monitoring dispositions and sanctions or PEP hit reviews.
• Define test sets, scenario coverage, and evaluation frameworks for compliance AI and agent tools.
• Own documentation and governance for automated and AI-assisted compliance decisions.
• Assess automation opportunities and escalate control-posture or model-risk trade-offs to compliance leadership.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in financial services compliance, AML, or related regulatory advisory work, preferably in fintech.
• Senior-investigator experience with transaction-monitoring alerts, AML investigations, complex fraud, and enhanced due-diligence reviews.
• Experience testing, labeling, or evaluating AI/ML model outputs, or the demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in formal model evaluation.
• Strong AI fluency, data analytics skills, project management, and documentation rigor.
• Ability to work closely with engineers and translate compliance judgment into build specifications, test cases, and evaluation criteria.
• Ability to scope ambiguous automation problems and deliver durable outcomes with minimal oversight.

Nice to have

• Data science background.
• Experience working with outsourced testing or QA partners on model tuning or signal collection.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible PTO and centralized home-office equipment ordering.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with regional plan variations and dependent coverage.
• 401(k) or regional retirement plans with employer matching, depending on location.
• Parental leave of up to 16 weeks for birthing and bonding or 8 weeks for bonding only, with regional variations.
• Health and wellness, fertility, virtual-care, pet-insurance, and employee-assistance benefits.
• In-office meals, snacks, drinks, coffee stipends, and a budget for intra-office travel.