Senior Data Scientist, Ads Integrity
$191K–$267K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Experience
- M.S. plus 4+ years of industry data science experience, or Ph.D. plus 2+ years; relevant experience in Data Science, Applied Science, or a related quantitative role.
- Education
- Ph.D. or M.S. in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or another quantitative field.
About the job
Leads strategy and development of systems to detect and enforce against ads fraud, from measurement and investigation through production deployment and ongoing evaluation.
What you'll do
- Define fraud taxonomies, labels, metrics, and evaluation frameworks; investigate emerging patterns and their impact.
- Build and oversee scalable detection and enforcement pipelines, including models, rules, scoring, feedback, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Partner across Ads and Safety to set roadmaps, guide enforcement decisions, and communicate findings to stakeholders.
What they ask for
- M.S. in a quantitative field and 4+ years of industry data science experience, or Ph.D. in a quantitative field and 2+ years of industry data science experience.
- Experience building or materially shaping production detection and automated enforcement pipelines.
- Strong command of fraud or abuse detection methods and evaluation, including calibration, threshold selection, false-positive analysis, and drift detection.
- Fluency in statistical analysis, Python or a similar programming language, and SQL.
Nice to have
- Relevant experience in ads or financial fraud, account risk, Trust & Safety, platform integrity, or enforcement engineering.
- Experience with graph or network analysis, clustering, anomaly detection, or natural language processing.
Pay
$190,800—$267,100 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, SQL, large language models (LLMs)
AI focus
Build statistical, machine learning, and GenAI-enabled models or prototypes for fraud detection, risk identification, investigator efficiency, and enforcement; apply AI and LLMs to workflows such as threat discovery, classification, signal development, and investigation automation.
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