Customer Data Scientist (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Munich or Berlin, Germany

Company

hirify.global provides AI-supported anti-money laundering and fraud detection technology combining traditional rules with explainable AI for banks and payment providers.

What you will do

• Tune and optimize AML and fraud detection models and thresholds using customers’ live transaction data.
• Investigate missed cases, alert quality, pattern drift, and detection performance, converting findings into tuning or configuration changes.
• Analyze and communicate investigator productivity gains, false-positive cost reduction, and detection effectiveness improvements.
• Present findings to customer risk, compliance, and data science stakeholders and defend model decisions.
• Partner with Customer Value Partners on account strategy, value realization, and renewal-related improvements.
• Document tuning decisions for regulatory defensibility and validate changes through backtesting, sample review, and formal sign-off.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience as a data scientist in a customer-facing role, including presenting analysis and defending model decisions directly to clients.
• Required experience in AML, fraud detection, or financial crime analytics, including transaction monitoring, typologies, and false-positive impact.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, and production machine learning tooling.
• Ability to act as the technical voice with customer risk, compliance, or data science stakeholders.
• Experience translating model performance into actionable business value, including investigator hours saved, false-positive cost avoided, and cases caught.
• Comfort working with ambiguity and live production systems rather than only offline research problems.
• Ownership mentality and ability to proactively investigate detection-performance drift.

Nice to have

• Experience in transaction monitoring or payments fraud detection at a bank, payment provider, or vendor serving them.
• Familiarity with explainable AI and rules-based hybrid detection approaches.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work in Munich or Berlin.
• Culture based on mutual trust, support, and professional growth.
• Opportunity to contribute to the fight against money laundering, fraud, and terrorist financing.