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Data Scientist – Anti-Fraud

Data Scientist – Anti-Fraud

CompanyRobinhood
LocationMenlo Park, CA, USA
Salary$122000 – $185000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesMaster’s
Experience LevelJunior, Mid Level

Requirements

  • Familiarity with fraud domains and banking processes, including account takeover, ACH fraud, debit/credit card fraud, first-party fraud, and synthetic identity fraud.
  • Demonstrated expertise in building and deploying fraud models using large datasets, with a strong track record of success in fraud detection and prevention.
  • Graduate degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, economics, statistics, engineering or natural sciences (or equivalent research experience)
  • Solid understanding of unsupervised learning, statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms for imbalanced datasets.
  • Excellent programming skills, including familiarity with either Python (numpy, scipy, pandas), sql, tensorflow, spark
  • Experience with experimentation and communicating data driven insights
  • 2 + years professional experience as a Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
  • Passion for working and learning in a fast-growing company

Responsibilities

  • Combining knowledge of several research domains to improve our understanding of different risks to Robinhood and help power decisions
  • Designing new machine learning systems to power the fraud prevention and risk reduction efforts at Robinhood especially in product areas
  • Build production grade models on large-scale datasets to measure effectiveness across products by leveraging statistical modeling, machine learning and data mining techniques.
  • Collaborate with the rest of the data team and partner marketing, product, content, design teams to build data solutions and products to drive user and revenue growth.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to implement insights and analytical solutions to empower data-driven decision making.
  • Problem solving skills and a can-do attitude to dive deep into data to solve business problems

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion for working and learning in a fast-growing company