DAT
Senior Applied Scientist, Trust & Safety
Seattle, Washington, United States · Senior · Contract
H1B sponsorship available$183k-$226kDetected 6 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsMachine LearningStatisticsCybersecurityDetection EngineeringLogisticsResearchCommunicationCollaborationAdaptabilityRisk Modeling
About the role
- This is a hands-on, end-to-end science role where you will:
- A key part of the opportunity is extending Convoy Platform's industry-leading CARVE product across the broader DAT ecosystem and evolving them into customer-facing risk products for a wider set of DAT customers.
Responsibilities
- Build and productionize fraud, safety, and risk systems for high-recall decisioning, with controls that preserve precision, fairness, and explainability in high-stakes workflows.
- Design graph, network-link analysis, entity-resolution, and anomaly-detection algorithms that identify hidden relationships, behavioral drift, account abuse, and emerging threat patterns across users, carriers, digital fingerprints and physical assets.
- Develop continuous risk monitoring, alerting, and policy decisioning across onboarding, booking, and load execution, combining ML models, heuristics, feedback loops, and human-in-the-loop review where appropriate.
- Move proactively and with urgency against evolving fraud patterns, rapidly iterating on approaches while building scalable, adaptable detection and decisioning systems rather than brittle one-off patches or manual hacks.
- Ability to develop algorithmic solutions and decision systems while maintaining explainability, interpretability, and defensibility in high-stakes risk and compliance workflows.
- Experience owning a model, service, API, or pipeline end-to-end, including quality, monitoring, iteration, and cross-functional coordination, with strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical partners and bring models into production.
- Demonstrated ability to frame ambiguous business problems as scalable automated decision systems and deliver practical solutions with measurable impact.
- With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is not done disrupting the industry it helped build.
- Conceptualize, propose, implement, and iterate on models and algorithms for fraud detection, risk scoring, and trust and safety decisioning.
- Build decision engines that learn from feedback and support actions such as step-up verification, review prioritization, and automated access controls.
Requirements
- You have experience with two-sided marketplaces, pricing, financial markets, or economic systems.
- You have worked on systems that combine models, heuristics, human review, and operational workflows to make high-stakes decisions.
Compensation
- Founded in 1978, DAT operates the largest freight marketplace in North America — processing 250 million+ load posts annually and maintaining one of the largest repositories of freight market transaction data in the world.
Benefits
- Apply machine learning, graph and network algorithms, anomaly detection, and other quantitative methods to deliver measurable improvements in fraud prevention and operational effectiveness.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
- An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
Company info
- This role sits at the intersection of machine learning, risk decisioning, and product development, with a focus on building systems that protect customers and the marketplace while preserving healthy marketplace activity.
Equal opportunity
- Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
- The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of
- The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
- However, employees who have access to the compensation information of
Visa & Work Authorization
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
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