Fraud Intelligence Analyst

Plaid

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$139,000–$191,400 / yr
Posted
136 days ago
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Confirmed live 2 days ago

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This role $165k
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This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $127,975–$192,220 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $165k versus about $160k for comparable roles.

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About Plaid

Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure

Plaid currently has 35 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $190,800–$262,800 across 35 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Fraud Intelligence Analyst

Fraud Intelligence Analyst The Fraud team focuses on detecting and preventing fraud by leveraging financial network data, including transaction patterns, device signals, identity linkages, and behavioral data. As a member of this team, you will perform live fraud investigations to reconstruct attacker sequences and identify intent while translating these findings into actionable insights for product improvements. You will collaborate with Data Science, ML, and Product teams to enhance model features, evaluation frameworks, and detection primitives. Your daily work involves utilizing dashboards, alerting systems, and analytics platforms to identify systemic gaps and develop new detection logic. The role requires expertise in pattern synthesis, hypothesis testing, and navigating dark or grey webs. Key technical skills include SQL for data querying, Python for scripting and prototyping, and experience with graph analysis, rule engines, and large-scale monitoring systems within the financial ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Lead investigations into complex fraud cases involving identities, accounts, devices, and transaction surfaces.
  • Reconstruct attacker sequences to identify intent, tooling, and patterns from noisy data signals.
  • Translate investigation findings into actionable improvements for product features and machine learning models.
  • Identify gaps in internal fraud tools and define new detection primitives to improve system scale.
  • Conduct longitudinal research on fraud types using network analysis, sequence mining, and custom heuristics.
  • Monitor external fraud trends and perform threat modeling of abuse surfaces to initiate research proposals.
  • Produce technical reports and case studies for stakeholders to document investigation workflows and attack logic.

What we're looking for

  • 3+ years of applied fraud experience in a high-velocity environment such as fintech, banking, or security research.
  • Experience reconstructing attacker intent and behavior in multi-step attack sequences across accounts, devices, and identities.
  • Post-containment incident response experience with an emphasis on post-mortems and root cause analysis.
  • Dark and grey-web navigation and investigation experience to translate external intelligence into actionable insights.
  • Ability to communicate complex, ambiguous behaviors to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proficiency with data environments and investigative toolchains including BI tools and anomaly detection systems.
  • SQL for deep data querying and exploratory analysis (preferred).
  • Python for scripting, rapid prototyping, and analytical workflows (preferred).

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