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SiftStaff Data Scientist
remotestaff$195K – $265K
via Ashby
About this role
ABOUT THE TEAM:
Our Data Science team owns the machine learning backbone of Sift's fraud platform—a system that learns from 1T+ events annually across our network of 700+ global customers. You'll work alongside ML engineers, platform teams, and customer success leads who obsess over reducing false positives while catching sophisticated fraud patterns at scale.
We're looking for a specialist who combines exceptional statistical rigor with deep fraud and information security domain expertise. You understand account takeover tactics, payment fraud vectors, identity manipulation, and network abuse patterns—not from reading threat reports, but from having modeled them in production.…
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