Nuvei

Senior Data Scientist

Nuvei

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

NumpyPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow

About the role

  • Support fraud and risk-as-a-service team in gaming, gambling and skills-based games.
  • Evaluate current risk and fraud conditions through data analyses and visualizations.
  • Propose innovative solutions to detect and prevent fraud and payment risks.
  • Build and assess statistical models and data architecture for advanced fraud detection.
  • Perform deep exploratory data analysis (EDA) on transactional and user behavior data to uncover fraud patterns.
  • Design, develop and refine learning models to prevent payment fraud, consumer abuse, and optimize authentication and conversion rates.
  • Build dashboards and automated monitoring for fraud risk indicators for stakeholders.
  • Tune decisioning rules and model thresholds for auto-approval systems.
  • Design and test new risk models; conduct experimentation and model validation.
  • Partner with product, engineering, and operations to deploy models into production.
  • Support incident response and update models via post-incident learnings.
  • Present findings to senior leadership to shape risk policies and product roadmap.
  • Mentor junior team members and promote data science and ML best practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building data science/machine learning products, preferably with a focus on fraud/risk.
  • Strong statistical and machine learning foundations, including anomaly detection and classification.
  • Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership.
  • Entrepreneurial and innovation mindset to advance next-gen technology and capabilities.
  • Prior experience in gaming, gambling, fintech, or high-risk industries is a plus.
  • Proficiency in Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch) and SQL.
  • Working language: English (written and spoken) is required.