Insight Global
AI

Data Scientist

Insight Global · San Jose, CA · $104k - $114k

Actively hiring Posted 7 months ago

What You’ll Do

  • Analyze and interpret complex data sets to derive actionable insights and inform decision-making.
  • Perform statistical analysis on feature transformation and business impact analytics.
  • Standardize rules and decision processes while enabling dynamic rule updates and analytics within the fraud detection platform.
  • Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams in engineering, product development, and data science to scale solutions globally.

Story Behind the Need – Team & Key Projects

  • Team: Work closely with Core Automation team’s tech leads/managers.
  • Partner with engineering teams to rebuild the next-generation risk platform (NGRP).
  • Be part of the pioneer team launching NGRP.

Reason for Posting:
Building a next-generation risk platform to support enterprise business functions under tight timelines for decision engine adoption.

**Typical Day in the Role

Daily Responsibilities:**

  • Test and evaluation; processing and governance; monitoring.
  • Data analysis and decision engine serving 80+ checkpoints—ensure all rules perform with high quality; troubleshoot and automate when issues arise.
  • Tasks distributed via Jira board (sprint planning/grooming cycle).
  • Regular standups (at least twice a week; daily if needed).
  • Onboarding requires more interaction with Engg/Product/US Risk core teams; later, ~50/50 split.
  • Work primarily within Jira for task assignments and tracking.
  • Code maintained in centralized GitHub repo.
  • Documentation in wiki pages or SharePoint/shared drives.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

  • Why this role is interesting: Design and implement scalable solutions to optimize fraud detection systems, spanning model development, feature engineering, and rule-based systems.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to set a new global standard for efficacy and innovation.
  • Address critical business challenges, develop advanced automation frameworks, and integrate cutting-edge machine learning techniques to enhance decision-making capabilities.

Candidate Requirements

  • Top 3 Must-Have Skills (stack-ranked):
  1. BigQuery, Python
  2. Understanding of production systems architecture and offline data overview
  3. Machine Learning experience
  • Nice to Have: Risk and fraud experience or business acumen; experience working directly with engineers.
  • Years of Experience: 6+
  • Degrees/Certifications: Master’s preferred; solid BS acceptable (STEM only).

Compensation: $50-$55/hour

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