Senior Data Scientist, Socure
Document Verification
$191-230k
+ Equity + Bonus
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
Posted today
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$191-230k
+ Equity + Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To verify 100% of good identities in real-time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- MS/PhD (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, fraud analytics, or product analytics
- Strong experience developing and evaluating production ML models
- Expert SQL and Python skills
- Experience with Databricks, Spark, AWS Sagemaker, or similar platforms
- Strong understanding of experimentation, statistical analysis, and ML evaluation
Desirable
- Experience with computer vision, deep learning, or transformer-based models
- Experience designing and analyzing A/B tests, online experiments, and statistical evaluations of product or machine learning performance
- Experience defining product KPIs and building dashboards to monitor product performance, customer behavior, and operational metrics
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly technical Senior Data Scientist to drive machine learning innovation for Socure's Document Verification (DocV) platform.
- This role combines model development, product analytics, model evaluation, and ML tooling to improve fraud detection, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
- You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Fraud Operations, and Data Science to build production ML models, generate actionable insights, and develop scalable evaluation and automation frameworks
- Design, develop, and improve ML models for document verification, fraud detection, image quality assessment, biometric verification, and related use cases
- Research new features, modeling approaches, and fraud detection techniques to improve production performance
- Partner with Engineering to deploy, monitor, and continuously improve production models
- Analyze product performance, fraud trends, customer behavior, and emerging attack vectors
- Design and execute model evaluations using offline and production datasets, measuring precision, recall, FAR/FRR, and business impact
- Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor model health, product performance, and operational metrics
- Build tools and automation for model evaluation, performance monitoring, labeling workflows, and fraud investigations
- Develop self-service analytics and experimentation frameworks
- Improve analytics infrastructure supporting model development and monitoring
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Fraud Operations, and Solutions Engineering to translate business needs into data-driven solutions
- Communicate technical findings and influence product and modeling decisions
Our take
Socure is an identity platform that aims to improve customer identification for digital transactions. The company is part of a growing market, with rivals in this competitive space including Signifyd, Riskified, AppsFlyer, ClearSale, Kount, SEON, and Fraud Fighters.
The engine delivered by Socure encompasses Know Your Customer (KYC), identity fraud detection, and document verification. With it, companies can scale rapidly by onboarding more good customers and preventing online fraud. Additionally, underbanked consumers who have been excluded from online services by outdated ID verification can gain access to critical benefits and services online.
Socure has rapidly escalated in popularity and reached a valuation well over $1 billion. Though not immune from the economic downturn of late, which resulted in two high-profile rounds of lay-offs, the company has secured considerable additional funds that will strengthen its financial position as it moves to capitalise on the ever-growing importance of identity verification and trust.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$450m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $646.6m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive medical coverage, including vision, dental, and FSA
- Parental Leave: Generous leave allowance for parents-to-be
- 401k: Pre-tax savings for retirement
- Life Insurance: Protect your family in case of emergency
- PTO: Take as much time as you need, when you need it
- 100% Remote: Work from anywhere anytime, whatever suits your lifestyle
- WFH Allowance: Generous reimbursement program to maximize your WFH setup
- Deskpass: Work in an office environment whenever you feel the need
- Mental Health Provider: Connect with clinicians when you need it
- Learning & Development: Self-education allowance & free career coaching
- Employee Assistance Program "EAP": Lifestyle resources available as well as additional mental health resources
- Fertility Provider: Family planning solutions for those interested
- Personal Legal Support: Significant discounts with RocketLawyer
Company HQ
Incline Village, NV
Leadership
Johnny Ayers
(Founder & CEO)Founder & General Partner of Switch Hit Ventures. Having been a Senior Consultant at IBM, they became COO and Board Member of Endeavor Up. Since then, was an Advisor at Pager and later founded Socure in 2012.
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