Sr Data Scientist - Fraud / Risk

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Risk Decision Science team. In this role, you’ll apply a data‑driven approach to identify, understand, and scope emerging fraud trends across the fraud detection and collaborate closely with cross‑functional partners, including engineers, product managers, operations, and other data scientists. This role will be responsible for key performance metrics such as fraud losses, false positive rates, and operational efficiency. Success will require strong business and technical acumen, along with excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

What You Will Do

• Deliver impactful strategies to mitigate or stop fraudulent activities and achieve key results (OKRs).
• Apply data analysis, experimentation, ML / LLM model techniques to support risk strategies while preserving user experience.
• Participate in project definition, idea generation, and collaborate with partners across product, engineering, community ops, and regional teams focused on risk / fraud mitigation.
• Evolve risk metrics, shape data models and instrumentation to generate insights and develop new data products and models.
• Communicate findings to leadership, strengthening business decisions.
• Stay highly engaged in a fast‑paced environment.

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation & Benefits

For San Francisco, CA‑based roles : base salary US$169,000‑188,000 per year. Eligible for Uber’s bonus program, equity award, and other compensation types. Additional benefits available – see the Uber benefits page for details.

Equal Opportunity Employment

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Uber also considers qualified applicants irrespective of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form .

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