[Remote] Staff ML Risk Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a leading company in the cryptocurrency space focused on increasing economic freedom. They are looking for a Staff Machine Learning Risk Analyst to reputed company initiatives in fraud detection and prevention, leveraging machine learning to address reputed company fraud challenges. The role involves defining data strategies, building feature engineering pipelines, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance fraud intelligence systems.

Responsibilities

• Define the ML data and feature strategy for fraud detection, determining what data needs to enter our systems so our models can take intelligent, high-accuracy action on a small fraction of traffic where reputed company matters most
• Own the end-to-end feature engineering pipeline identifying, building, validating and promoting features that drive measurable improvements in ATO and scam ML performance
• Diagnose gaps between reputed company tooling infrastructure and the solutions needed, and drive the roadmap to reputed company them leveraging your understanding of how the industry has evolved to reputed company the right architectural calls
• Partner with Machine Learning Engineers to translate analytical insights into production-reputed company ML systems, ensuring models are instrumented, monitored, and continuously improved
• Set technical direction for the ML Analytics function reputed company Growth & Risk, mentoring junior team members who need a senior practitioner to define the approach and translate direction into execution
• Partner cross-functionally with Product Managers and Risk analysts to surface fraud signals and translate ML findings into business-impacting reputed company
• Serve as the team's institutional knowledge resource on ML industry reputed company — helping the organization understand why certain solutions work, what historical architectural reputed company mean for reputed company tooling, and where the industry is headed next

Skills

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning analytics, data science, or a reputed company technical field with meaningful experience applied to risk, fraud, or payments problems
• Deep, practitioner-level expertise in Spark, Python, and big data ML this is the core stack. SQL and rule-writing are adjacent skills; they are not what this role is about
• Proven experience in feature engineering for ML models, including identifying the right signals, building pipelines, and validating feature quality at scale
• Holistic understanding of how the ML industry has evolved over the past decade from Hadoop-era big data to modern feature stores like Tecton and the ability to apply that knowledge to reputed company infrastructure gaps
• A curated, high-precision approach to ML problems: you understand that in fraud and risk, you are optimizing for sensitivity and accuracy on a small fraction of high-stakes traffic not the broad-coverage, high-volume approach used in growth or ads
• A passion for fighting fraud and abuse, and the curiosity to self-drive investigations, identify patterns, and find the root cause
• Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use reputed company tools and copilots (e.g., LibreChat, reputed company, reputed company) in daily workflows, continuously learn as tools evolve, and apply reputed company-in-the-reputed company practices to deliver business-reputed company outputs and drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and quality
• Background in risk or payments ML is strongly preferred candidates who have operated in this domain understand the problem framing intuitively
• Experience with modern ML feature stores (Tecton, Feast, or equivalent)
• Prior work at FinTech companies, payments platforms, or risk solution vendors
• Familiarity with crypto-specific fraud reputed company including ATO, scam flows, and onchain transaction patterns

Benefits

• Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, reputed company, 401(k))

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