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Senior Data Scientist Analyst Risk

Summary

Build and maintain detection systems to identify and quantify abuse patterns like fake signups, wash trading, and market manipulation using on-chain, device, and behavioral signals.

You will investigate abuse patterns including fake and duplicate signups, bonus farming, wash trading, collusion, and market manipulation. You will combine on-chain, device, and behavioral signals to build detections; quantify financial exposure; convert investigations into monitoring and alerts; partner on onboarding, verification, and bonus controls; support compliance investigations and reporting; and document detection thresholds and rationale.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate abuse across the funnel
  • Quantify multi-accounting, fake signups, bonus farming, wash trading, collusion, and manipulation
  • Build detection logic using on-chain, device, and behavioral signals
  • Create recurring monitoring and alerting
  • Size financial exposure for each abuse vector
  • Partner on onboarding, verification, and bonus controls
  • Support compliance investigations, escalations, and regulatory reporting
  • Promote detection logic into the modeled layer
  • Document detection thresholds and rationale

Requirements

  • 7+ years in risk, fraud analytics, trust and safety, or a similar investigative analytical role
  • Expert SQL
  • Pattern recognition across behavioral datasets
  • Experience building detection rules or models
  • Judgment regarding false positives and missed abuse
  • Ability to work with compliance and handle sensitive findings
  • Experience with on-chain analysis, wallet clustering, or blockchain forensics is a plus
  • Experience with trade surveillance, market manipulation detection, or AML is a plus
  • Anomaly detection, graph analysis, or clustering in Python or R is a plus
  • Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products is a plus

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Full health coverage
  • Full vision coverage
  • Full dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • New MacBook Pro
  • Big display
  • Accessories

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