Sr Data Scientist, Risk

About the Opportunity

The Sr Data Scientist, Risk will offer a strategic perspective, deep analytical and modeling capabilities, and a collaborative working style. The right candidate will have strong intellectual curiosity and passion for achieving business results. An ability to quickly define the problem, research and leverage state-of-the-art modeling techniques, and provide timely recommendations will be essential. Key skills will include a strong analytical mindset, deep understanding of most popular machine learning algorithms and lead key initiatives with integrity and a passion for investigations, problem solving, and troubleshooting.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Identify complex fraud patterns and their technical root causes through detailed data mining and analysis, including identification of sophisticated fraud methods employed by actors who are deliberately trying to avoid detection.
• Serve as technical SME by sharing new data mining techniques, maintaining technical reference documentation, and interfacing with partner technology teams.
• Collaborate across business and technology stakeholders to communicate analytical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide technical guidance for engineering projects that incorporate new data points into the investigation team’s toolkit, such as API integrations or internal data transformations.
• Link Analysis / Graph analytics to find and mitigate deeply-connected fraud networks and detect new accounts being added to these networks.
• Apply unsupervised learning methods to augment existing supervised models, or detect portfolio anomalies.
• Develop machine learning models.
• Partner with product and engineering teams in implementing features and models, and enhancing systems.

What We Look For In You

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OKX Statement

The salary range for this position is $223,661.00 to $268,333.00. The salary offered depends on a variety of factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. In addition to the salary, a performance bonus and long-term incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, as well as a full range of medical, financial, and / or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Okcoin and OKX internal or external careers site.

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