Middle Data Scientist

Dataforest is looking for a Data Scientist to join an interesting software development project in the field of Cybersecurity. Our client's platform offers Identity Insights drives real-time, multi-contextual digital forensics to protect new account opening workflows and expose fake accounts already in a customer database.

    Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience working with large-scale, complex datasets.
• Experience with imbalanced data.
• High proficiency in Python for data analysis, feature engineering and modeling.
• Expertise in exploratory data analysis and preparing clean, structured datasets for model development.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML techniques:
• Supervised (eg. gradient boosting, decision trees, etc.)
• Unsupervised (eg. anomaly detection, clustering, etc.)
• Familiarity with basic statistical concepts and model evaluation metrics (eg. precision, recall, ROC-AUC).
• Upper-intermediate (B2) or higher level of English.
  
  Nice to Have
• Hands-on experience in the fraud/risk domain.
• Experience with Databricks (including Pyspark) for data processing, experimentation, and model development.
• Experience in MLflow library for experiment tracking and model lifecycle management.
• Experience working with diverse data sources (e.g., behavioral, device, or transactional data) and deriving meaningful features.
• Experience assessing data quality and validating new data sources in production environments.

     Key Responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale transaction datasets to identify fraud patterns and risk signals.
• Develop and validate ML models for risk scoring and fraud detection/classification.
• Support deployment of models into production environments by collaborating with the development team.
• Monitor model performance, conduct regular evaluations, analyze the results.
• Perform feature engineering to continuously improve model performance.
• Collaborate with the client on R&D efforts, including exploratory data analysis, feature development, and testing new approaches.

     We offer

• Great networking opportunities with international clients, challenging tasks;
• Building interesting projects from scratch using new technologies;
• Personal and professional development opportunities;
• Competitive salary fixed in USD;
• Paid vacation and sick leaves;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Friendly working environment with minimal hierarchy;
• Team building activities and corporate events.