Data Scientist

Predictive analytics and machine learning power Socure’s groundbreaking technology and fuel our mission to verify 100% of good identities in real time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet.

Socure is the world leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention. Our recent awards include Forbes 2022 America’s Best Startup Employers, The Forbes Cloud 100, The Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies.

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Overview

Socure is the leading platform for digital identity verification and trust. Its predictive analytics platform applies artificial intelligence and machine learning technology with trusted online/offline data intelligence from email, phone address, IP, device, velocity, and the broader internet to verify identities in real time.

We are currently looking for a Data Scientist in our Socure Verify team, to be based anywhere remotely in the USA. The Socure Verify team is responsible for developing cutting edge entity-resolution algorithms, using graph techniques on massive datasets for entity searching and matching. 

This role is also building foundations of many data driven teams and products, generate new features for fraud prevention, building probabilistic models for identity matching, automating data-processing pipelines, evaluating the performance of new data vendors, and providing analytical support to the Socure compliance and regulatory product suite, which includes a highly acclaimed Know-Your-Customer (KYC) product.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze large data sets to develop identity graph, optimize graph structure, and build algorithms to drive innovative identity-verification solutions. Focus on product improvement, resolve key points to help identify key challenges and provide feedback and solutions to clients.

• Apply machine learning in analysis, conduct data mining, utilize statistical analysis, build graph-based algorithms designed to analyze massive data sets 

• Understand and resolve computational limitations related to parallelizing algorithm application and data processing.

• Develop, improve models, and perform A/B testing analysis of production data.

• Provide analytic support to the compliance-product teams.

• Report on project status to senior management.

• Work well in a fast-paced cross-functional environment.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree with 3+ year of experience or Ph.D with 1+ years of experience working in a data science/engineer analytical role

• Experience in developing data-driven algorithms in information retrieval, relevance, or machine learning and working with distributed systems.

• Programming skills Python, R or Scala , SQL, Pysql

• Familiarity with Spark/Pypsark, common ML libraries, and the AWS ecosystem, including EMR and S3.

• Experience with data mining, unsupervised machine learning algorithms, and statistical- tools and underlying theory.

• Experience in developing data pipelines and automated workflows

• Additionally, experience with Neo4j/AWS Neptune (graph tools and databases analyzing large data sets to extract value), Elasticsearch or DynamoDB, and Airflow for automating data pipeline and workflow or equivalents is a big plus!
  
  Salary Disclosure:

  Base Salary range: $125,000 - $150,000

  This represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on factors including geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other job related factors. Socure's compensation and rewards package for full time roles includes a market competitive salary, equity,  comprehensive benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans or an annual discretionary performance bonus. 

  Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise.

  Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise.

Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise.

We empower excellence by providing great perks and benefits to both our fully remote employees in North America and our hybrid teams in India.

To learn more, check out Socure’s Career Page: https://www.socure.com/company/careers

Socure is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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• Socure is Forbes' 2022 Best Startup Employer: https://bit.ly/3fbNw8S

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• Socure's Impact on Financial Inclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nBc6s1wsU

• Socure's Impact on Fraud Prevention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M46UG8QyKe4

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