Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury is a fintech company focused on delivering a smooth and trustworthy banking experience. The company is seeking a Machine Learning-focused Staff Data Scientist to support its Risk team by developing fraud detection models, improving data reliability, and collaborating across risk, product, and engineering. The role will also provide technical leadership in prototyping and establishing machine learning best practices.
Responsibilities
- Build, validate, and deploy machine learning models to identify and prevent fraud in real time
- Support the reproducibility and robustness of said models through documentation, testing, and monitoring
- Ensure data quality and reliability across pipelines and tools
- Collaborate with Risk Strategy to ideate on model inputs and applications and with Engineering optimize deployment and observability
- Act as a technical lead prototyping, iterating on, and codifying best practices - and bringing the rest of the team along
Skills
- 7+ years of experience working with and analyzing large datasets to solve problems and drive impact, with 5+ years of ML experience
- Proficiency in SQL and experience using it to understand and manage imperfect data
- Proficiency in Python and experience with statistical modeling and machine learning
- Experience deploying and monitoring machine learning models in production
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
- Demonstrated ability to lead and empower others, delivering not just on your own work, but upleveling those around you
- The ability to drive strategic alignment between teams with differing roadmaps, timelines, or architectures
- 1+ years of relevant risk experience
- Familiarity with LLMs or other GenAI and how they can be applied to risk or fraud detection
- Experience with modern data tools for pipelines and ETL (e.g., dbt)
- Experience with model governance as required in finance or other regulated industries
- Experience building zero-to-one solutions in ambiguous or greenfield problem spaces
Benefits
- Equity (stock options/RSUs)
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