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Data Scientist local to California

Aaditus Technologies LLC

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San Jose, CA

Job description

Title - Data Scientist

Location - San Jose, CA/Chicago, IL(Locals only)

Duration - 18 Months contract with possible extension

What You’ll Do:

  • Analyze and interpret complex data sets to derive actionable insights and inform decision-making. 
  • Perform the statistical analysis on the feature transformation and business impact analytics
  • Standardize rules and decision processes while enabling dynamic rule updates and analytics within the fraud detection platform. 
  • Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams in engineering, product development, and data science to scale solutions globally. 

Test and evaluation; Processing and governance, monitoring:

Data analysis, decision engine serving 80+ checkpoint – lots of data sending through and we want to make sure all the rules within that checkpoint perform with a high quality and if something goes wrong, we need to do some analysis and automation.

  • Tasks will be distributed via our Jira board/sprint planning/grooming cycle.
  • Team will have a regular standup on each task (at least twice a week but open for daily if needed or any blockers)
  • During the onboarding, it would require more interactions with Engg/Product/US Risk core teams but once onboarded, it would be 50/50.
  • Team work mostly within Jira board from tasks assignments and tracking.
  • Code would be in our centralized GitHub repo.
  • Updates/documentation would be either in wiki page or our SharePoint/share drive.

You would get chance to design and implement scalable solutions to optimize fraud detection systems, spanning model development, feature engineering, and rule-based systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and product managers, to ensure our platform sets a new global standard for efficacy and innovation. 

You will address critical business challenges, develop advanced automation frameworks, and integrate cutting-edge machine learning techniques to enhance decision-making capabilities. By joining us, you will not only contribute to PayPal’s fraud detection efforts but leave a lasting impact on the financial security of millions of users around the globe. 

Top Skills:

  • Big Query, Python, SQL
  • Understand the production systems architect and offline data overview
  • Machine Learning experience

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Application Question(s):

  • Are you Authorized to work on w2 without any sponsorship
  • Are you local to Califorinia
  • Please mention your current zip code
  • Are you willing to come day 1 onsite

Experience:

  • Big Query: 10 years (Required)
  • Python: 10 years (Required)
  • SQL: 10 years (Required)
  • Machine Learning (ML: 5 years (Required)
  • System Architecture: 5 years (Required)
  • Rule Engine/Automation: 5 years (Required)
  • Fraud Detection/Risk systems : 5 years (Required)

Work Location: In person