
Senior Data Scientist
Role summary
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist with 8+ years of experience, specializing in computer vision and machine learning, to join our document verification team. This role involves designing, building, and maintaining production ML systems that analyze identity and document images at scale. You will own ML solutions end-to-end, from data analysis and model training to deployment and monitoring. The position requires strong technical leadership, customer engagement, and the ability to translate complex technical details into business-facing descriptions. A Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience is required, with a Master's or Ph.D. preferred. Experience with document verification, OCR, identity, fraud detection, or image forensics is a plus.
### Who you are
- We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in computer vision and machine learning to join our document verification team
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience, with 8+ years or equivalent professional experience and significant hands-on work in computer vision
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining production machine learning systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience in customer-facing technical roles
- Adept at translating technical details into business facing descriptions, focused on not only the “what” but the “why”
- Ability to balance technical rigor with customer, business, and compliance needs
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related field
- Experience with document verification, OCR, identity, fraud detection, or image forensics
- Exposure to transformer-based vision models, multimodal systems, or LLMs
- Experience working with enterprise customers or in regulated environments
### What the job involves
- This role focuses on building and owning ML systems that analyze identity and document images at scale, combining hands-on technical leadership with direct customer engagement
- You will act as both a technical owner, a trusted advisor, and a story teller, helping customers understand and adopt our document verification solutions
- Design, develop, and own advanced deep learning models, including CNNs and transformer-based vision or multimodal architectures, for document verification use cases such as document classification, fraud detection, image quality assessment, field extraction, and authenticity checks
- Own ML solutions end to end, from data analysis and model training to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production
- Act as a technical point of contact for customers, leading technical deep dives, explaining model behavior, performance metrics, and tradeoffs, and supporting customer evaluations or escalations
- Translate customer, regulatory, and business requirements into clear modeling objectives, and communicate results effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Partner closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable document verification systems
### Benefits
- Health: Comprehensive medical coverage, including vision, dental, and FSA
- Parental Leave: Generous leave allowance for
parents-to-be
- 401k: Pre-tax savings for retirement
- Life Insurance: Protect your family in
case of emergency
- PTO: Take as much time as you need,
when you need it
- 100% Remote: Work from anywhere anytime, whatever suits your lifestyle
- WFH Allowance: Generous reimbursement program to maximize your WFH setup
- Deskpass: Work in an office environment whenever you feel the need
- Mental Health Provider: Connect with clinicians when you need it
- Learning & Development: Self-education allowance & free career coaching
- Employee Assistance Program "EAP": Lifestyle resources available as well as additional mental health resources
- Fertility Provider: Family planning solutions for those interested
- Personal Legal Support: Significant discounts with RocketLawyer
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