Plaid
Fraud Intelligence Analyst
$162K–$244K
San Francisco HQ · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Apr 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of applied fraud experience.
About the job
Investigates complex fraud across Plaid’s financial network and turns findings into improved detection capabilities, model inputs, and product features.
What you'll do
- Lead fraud investigations, reconstruct attacker behavior, and support fraud operations, incident response, and alert triage.
- Analyze fraud signals and network patterns, identify detection and tooling gaps, and develop actionable detection approaches.
- Partner with Data Science, ML/AI, and Product teams; document findings and feed incident learnings into fraud defenses.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of applied fraud experience in a high-velocity environment.
- End-to-end investigations reconstructing attacker intent and behavior across accounts, devices, and identities.
- Post-containment incident response experience emphasizing post-mortems and root cause analysis.
- Dark and grey-web investigation experience, strong communication, and fluency with data and investigative tools.
Nice to have
- SQL, Python, graph/network analysis, or familiarity with rule engines and large-scale monitoring systems.
- Experience applying AI tools and agents to investigations, or translating fraud research into signals, rules, or labeled datasets.
Pay
$162K – $243.6K (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python
AI focus
Collaborates with ML/AI teams on labeling, features, evaluation, and model decay monitoring; may use AI tools and agents to accelerate investigations and research.
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