Rain
Machine Learning Engineer - Fraud Risk
$170K–$240K
New York, NY · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jan 9, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building ML systems in production; at least 2+ in fraud, risk, or anomaly detection domains.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, real-time machine learning systems and pipelines to detect and prevent fraud across Rain’s payment products.
What you'll do
- Develop end-to-end ML pipelines and low-latency fraud decision systems, from data ingestion and feature engineering through deployment and monitoring.
- Own ML infrastructure, model versioning, retraining, deployment safety, and monitoring for performance, latency, data quality, and drift.
- Experiment with explainability, drift detection, and adversarial robustness, and partner with fraud risk, platform, data science, and compliance teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years building production ML systems, including at least 2+ years in fraud, risk, or anomaly detection.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Math, or a related technical field.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and ML frameworks; proven track record designing and maintaining ML models at scale.
- Experience developing, validating, and productionalizing predictive real-time and offline fraud detection models using supervised and unsupervised ML techniques.
Nice to have
- Domain expertise in banking, payments, or transaction monitoring; experience with graph-based or network-level fraud detection.
- Experience adapting generative AI / large language models for pattern generation or synthetic data augmentation.
Pay
$170K – $240K USD base salary
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
AI focus
Fraud detection, anomaly detection, and behavioral analysis using ML; nice-to-have work adapting generative AI / large language models for pattern generation or synthetic data augmentation.
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