At a glance
AI generatedTL;DR
As a Senior Fraud Researcher at Plaid’s San Francisco headquarters, you will join the Fraud team to detect and prevent financial fraud using advanced data analysis. Your day-to-day responsibilities include leading complex investigations, translating findings into actionable insights for product improvements, and collaborating with Data Science, ML, and Product teams to enhance fraud detection capabilities. You will leverage tools like dashboards, alerting systems, and analytics platforms to identify anomalies and drive enhancements in internal tooling. Additionally, you will conduct deep research on fraud patterns, experiment with custom heuristics, and monitor external trends to inform product development. The role requires expertise in SQL, Python, graph/network analysis, and familiarity with AI tools for investigations, along with strong communication skills to report findings effectively across various stakeholders.
Skills
What you'll do
- Lead complex fraud investigations across identities, accounts, devices, and transactions.
- Translate investigation findings into improvements for detection models and products.
- Operate Plaid's fraud tooling to detect anomalies and validate signals at scale.
- Conduct deep research on how fraud types manifest in network data over time.
- Continuously monitor external fraud trends and initiate research proposals as needed.
What we're looking for
- 3+ years of applied fraud experience in high-velocity environments like fintech or consumer payments.
- Strong investigator mindset with skills in pattern synthesis, hypothesis testing, and triage between signal and noise.
- Experience reconstructing attacker intent and behavior across multi-step attack sequences involving accounts, devices, and identities.
- Proficiency in navigating dark and grey-web for intelligence gathering and translating external data into actionable insights.
- Excellent communication skills to explain complex behaviors to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Fluency with investigative toolchains including BI tools, anomaly detection systems, and case trackers.
Employer
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 58 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $204,156–$281,196 across 58 roles with salary data.
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