Alloy
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
$159K–$230K
Alloy New York · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 7, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years; backgrounds in Applied Fraud Research, Data Science, or Machine Learning are listed as alternatives.
About the job
Build and improve production machine-learning systems for fraud detection, including model development, evaluation, monitoring, and customer-facing fraud studies.
What you'll do
- Design, train, and evaluate fraud-detection models; develop metrics, testing plans, and performance reports.
- Support production ML workflows, including feature generation, training, and monitoring, and maintain model documentation and governance.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to internal teams and customers.
What they ask for
- 8+ years as an individual contributor in Applied Fraud Research, Data Science, or Machine Learning, with a proven track record in a “Solutions” or client-facing capacity.
- Expertise with highly imbalanced datasets and production-grade machine-learning models, with specific interest in tree-based models.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL; able to process data at scale, including billions of records.
- Must be local to Greater New York City.
Nice to have
- Previous experience in financial fraud detection.
- Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field; experience with BI tools like Looker or modeling on graph structures is also a plus.
Pay
$159,000, to $230,000 (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, Looker
AI focus
Develop and operate machine-learning models for fraud detection, with emphasis on imbalanced data, tree-based models, model evaluation, and production monitoring.
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