Middesk
Lead Data Scientist
$210K–$250K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted May 27, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 7+ years of production ML experience.
About the job
Build and scale production machine learning applications for fraud, risk, business identity, and onboarding workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop production risk and fraud models for trust and safety, KYB, and compliance, and improve challenging classification and labeling workflows.
- Build knowledge graph solutions using LLMs for construction, querying, and retrieval in entity resolution and business identity applications.
- Partner with ML infrastructure teams on feature services, training and serving pipelines, model standards, and orchestration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of production ML experience in risk, fraud, credit, trust and safety, knowledge graphs, or entity resolution.
- Experience with real-world classification challenges, including imbalanced labels, sparse signals, cold starts, and production version management.
- Hands-on ML infrastructure experience with feature stores, model management, and ML training and serving pipelines.
- Ability to set technical direction, mentor peers, and establish best practices as a senior individual contributor.
Nice to have
- B2B SaaS experience, ideally building ML products for enterprise customers.
- Experience building automated end-to-end training harnesses or scaling ML across multiple products or risk domains.
Pay
$210K – $250K USD base salary
Tools
ML, LLMs, AI agents, feature stores, knowledge graphs
AI focus
Build AI-driven onboarding and risk applications; use LLMs and AI agents for signal extraction, automated labeling, and knowledge graph construction, querying, and retrieval.
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