Senior Data Scientist (Fraud Risk Detection)

Location: Remote within the United States

Salary: $92,562–$160,440 annually, plus variable pay opportunity

Company

hirify.global is a global data and technology company serving financial services, healthcare, automotive, insurance, agribusiness, and other markets across 32 countries.

What you will do

• Explore complex datasets to identify fraud patterns, attack methods, and behavioral signals.
• Translate fraud questions into testable hypotheses and investigate account opening, account takeover, and identity risk.
• Build, train, validate, and evaluate machine learning models and features using technical and business metrics.
• Develop features from identity, transactional, behavioral, and other data sources.
• Write clean, well-tested code and collaborate with engineering to deploy models and features to production.
• Support model and feature monitoring, client-focused research, analysis, and communication with technical and nontechnical audiences while following privacy, documentation, explainability, validation, and governance standards.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, statistical modeling, or a related quantitative field.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, economics, engineering, data science, or another quantitative discipline.
• Foundation in supervised learning, model evaluation, feature selection, statistical inference, classification, and anomaly detection.
• Proficiency in Python, including clean, readable, and well-tested code.
• Familiarity with pandas, NumPy, and scikit-learn.
• Investigative mindset and ability to turn unusual data patterns into testable hypotheses.
• Familiarity with PySpark, cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, or other large-scale data tools.
• Exposure to financial services, FinTech, payments, or another regulated or fraud-intensive industry through coursework, internship, or prior work.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote role with a flexible work environment; remote, hybrid, and in-office arrangements are supported.
• Medical, dental, vision, and matching 401(k) benefits.
• Flexible time off, including volunteer time off, vacation, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays.
• Compensation package and bonus plan.
• Inclusive, purpose-driven, people-first culture.