Socure - Data Scientist ll
Requirements
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience. • 5+ years of experience in data science, applied machine learning, statistical modeling, analytics engineering, or a related technical role. • Experience building, evaluating, and improving machine learning models, features, analytical pipelines, or risk signals. • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale, complex datasets. • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with data science libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar. • Experience with distributed data processing tools such as Spark, PySpark, Databricks, or equivalent frameworks. • Solid understanding of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, statistical validation, and experiment analysis. • Ability to work with noisy data, imperfect labels, missing values, instrumentation gaps, and changing data distributions. • Strong analytical judgment across data quality, feature design, model selection, explainability, and business impact. • Experience collaborating with engineering, product, analytics, or risk teams to move data science work toward production or operational use. • Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical work, assumptions, tradeoffs, and results to non-specialist stakeholders. • Ability to operate independently on defined problem areas while seeking guidance appropriately on ambiguous or high-risk decisions. • Background in fraud detection, identity verification, trust and safety, anomaly detection, cybersecurity, risk modeling, or another adversarial data domain. • Experience with device intelligence, browser/mobile fingerprinting, behavioral biometrics, network intelligence, VPN/proxy detection, or telemetry signal processing. • Experience developing features from high-cardinality categorical data using techniques such as aggregation, frequency encoding, target encoding, embeddings, graph features, or representation learning. • Familiarity with production ML workflows, model monitoring, feature monitoring, or batch and near-real-time decisioning systems. • Experience with dashboarding, model explainability, feature documentation, or customer-impact analysis. • Interest in adversarial behavior, fraud patterns, telemetry quality, and applied ML systems that operate in real-world production environments. • What You’ll Gain • What You’ll Gain • You will work on meaningful data science problems in fraud prevention and identity verification, using high-scale Digital Intelligence telemetry to build features and risk signals that contribute to real-world production decisions. • You will gain deeper experience with device, network, browser, mobile, session, and behavioral intelligence while working closely with senior data scientists, engineering, product, and risk partners. This role offers the opportunity to grow from independently delivering scoped modeling projects toward owning broader workstreams and developing Senior-level technical judgment over time.
Responsibilities
• Develop machine learning features, models, and analytical methods for device, network, browser, mobile, session, and behavioral intelligence. • Work on scoped fraud and identity risk problems where data quality, labels, telemetry coverage, and product tradeoffs need careful analysis. • Build features from large-scale, high-cardinality, sparse, noisy, and platform-dependent telemetry. • Analyze signal patterns such as spoofing, emulator behavior, automation, proxy/VPN usage, low-entropy fingerprints, telemetry gaps, and device or session fragmentation. • Design and execute validation analyses, including train/test splits, holdout checks, leakage review, drift assessment, customer impact analysis, and feature stability review. • Use supervised, unsupervised, statistical, and heuristic approaches to identify durable fraud and identity risk signals. • Investigate imperfect labels, delayed outcomes, instrumentation gaps, and changing fraud patterns to distinguish useful signal from data artifacts. • Partner with senior data scientists, engineering, product, risk, and platform teams to clarify requirements, prepare data, implement features, and support production rollout. • Contribute to model documentation, feature definitions, explainability materials, dashboards, and production-readiness reviews. • Communicate methods, assumptions, findings, limitations, and recommendations clearly to technical and cross-functional stakeholders. • Support junior data scientists and analysts through code review, analytical feedback, and sharing effective modeling and validation practices.
Benefits
• DS2:$140K – $170K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • This is a base salary range for this job based on the job requirements. • Base pay is only one component of Socure's compensation and our total rewards package includes equity, benefits, and an annual bonus or a commission plan. • annual bonus • commission plan. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Please note: we have set up limits for applications for this role. • Candidates may not apply more than 3 times in any 30 day span for any job at Socure. • Candidates may not re-apply to the same role within 30 days. • or drag and drop here • Mark No: Candidates on F1, OPT, or H1 visas that will require sponsorship now or in the future. • San Francisco, New York, Seattle or Miami? • We really read these! Please be brief & compelling . • A brief description is fine - this is a hard requirement for the role! • Unfortunately we are unable to hire employees residing in these states. • San Francisco, CA • New York City, NY • Socure's Recruiting Privacy Policy • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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