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Data Scientist at Middesk | San Francisco

MiddeskSan FranciscoNew
On-site Full-time

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Experience Level

Mid to Senior

Qualifications

What You’ll DoDevelop Fraud & Risk SystemsCreate and implement production systems that identify and prevent fraud in Know Your Business (KYB), trust & safety, and compliance processes. Handle Complex Real-World DataAddress issues involving significant class imbalance, sparse signals, evolving adversarial tactics, and minimal ground truth. Utilize Data RelationshipsEmploy graph-based techniques and entity resolution methods to reveal hidden relationships and enhance risk detection. Enhance Signal & LabelingImplement a combination of heuristics, weak supervision, and advanced AI tools (including large language models when applicable) to produce superior features and labels. Contribute to Infrastructure ScalabilityCollaborate with engineering teams to design and improve systems for feature generation, model training, and production deployment across various applications.

About the job

About Middesk

Middesk is revolutionizing the way businesses collaborate by simplifying identity verification. Since our establishment in 2018, we have replaced cumbersome manual processes with instant access to reliable and current data. Our innovative platform empowers companies across various sectors to efficiently verify business identities, accelerate customer onboarding, and mitigate risks throughout the customer lifecycle.

Originating from Y Combinator and supported by prestigious investors like Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, Middesk proudly earned a spot on Forbes' Fintech 50 List.

The Role

Join us in creating AI-enhanced applications that streamline customer workflows, beginning with business onboarding. Armed with our unique identity data and extensive domain knowledge, we are poised to grow into a wider array of intelligent, risk-aware products.

We seek a proactive engineer to establish the groundwork for these systems. This role focuses less on inventing new machine learning algorithms and more on effectively applying established techniques to complex, real-world challenges. If you have experience in fraud, risk, or trust domains, and possess insights into how malicious actors operate, how data can be flawed, and how to deliver dependable systems, we want to hear from you.

This is a highly technical, hands-on position that significantly influences the design, construction, and scaling of data-centric systems at Middesk.

About Middesk

Middesk is at the forefront of transforming business identity verification for more efficient and reliable collaboration. With our innovative approach, we help businesses thrive while minimizing risks.

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