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About the Role
Machine Learning-focused Data Scientist to support the Risk team in detecting, monitoring, and mitigating fraud, while understanding and monitoring customer behavior for financial crime risk. This role is critical in strengthening fraud defenses and ensuring a smooth and trustworthy banking experience.
Responsibilities
- Build, validate, and deploy machine learning models to identify and prevent fraud in real time.
- Support the reproducibility and robustness of models through documentation, testing, and monitoring.
- Ensure data quality and reliability across pipelines and tools.
- Collaborate with Risk Strategy to ideate on model inputs and applications.
- Collaborate with Engineering to optimize deployment and observability.
- Act as a technical lead prototyping, iterating on, and codifying best practices.
- Bring the rest of the team along in adopting best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience working with and analyzing large datasets to solve problems and drive impact.
- 5+ years of ML experience.
- Proficiency in SQL and experience using it to understand and manage imperfect data.
- Proficiency in Python and experience with statistical modeling and machine learning.
- Experience deploying and monitoring machine learning models in production.
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and empower others, delivering not just on your own work, but upleveling those around you.
- The ability to drive strategic alignment between teams with differing roadmaps, timelines, or architectures.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Statistical modeling
- Machine learning
- Model deployment
- Model monitoring
- LLMs
- GenAI
- dbt
Location
- US employees (any location)
- Canadian employees (any location)
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience
- 5+ years of ML experience
- 1+ years of relevant risk experience
Salary/Compensations
- US employees (any location): $239,000—$298,800 USD
- Canadian employees (any location): $225,900—$282,400 CAD
Benefits
- base salary
- equity (stock options/RSUs)
- benefits
About the Company
- Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.
Equal Opportunity
- Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.