Socure
Senior Data Scientist - Document Verification
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA · Senior
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About the role
- We hire people who want that level of responsibility.
- If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won't be your place.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and improve ML models for document verification, fraud detection, image quality assessment, biometric verification, and related use cases.
- Partner with Engineering to deploy, monitor, and continuously improve production models.
- Design and execute model evaluations using offline and production datasets, measuring precision, recall, FAR/FRR, and business impact.
- Build tools and automation for model evaluation, performance monitoring, labeling workflows, and fraud investigations.
- Develop self-service analytics and experimentation frameworks.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Fraud Operations, and Solutions Engineering to translate business needs into data-driven solutions.
Requirements
- Experience with Databricks, Spark, AWS Sagemaker, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of experimentation, statistical analysis, and ML evaluation.
- 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 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.
- Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process-including interview or onboarding support-please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.
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Skills
- The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day.
- People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision.
Benefits
- Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor model health, product performance, and operational metrics.
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