Senior BSA/AML Investigator
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA; New York, NY
- Salary range
- USD $125,000 – $145,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $190k to $260k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the posting states the level in its title · the title reads as P3 · asks for 4+ years · posts $125k to $145k base at a frontier lab.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from SpaceXAI's posting.
Financial crime investigation on the BSA/AML side of X Money, the payments product in SpaceXAI's Super Intelligence suite. The role works within Legal & Compliance to run the BSA/AML and Sanctions program, covering transaction monitoring alerts, SAR filing and customer due diligence.
What you'd do
- Investigate and resolve complex transaction monitoring alerts and cases, including analysis of payment flows and user behavior.
- Prepare, review and recommend filing of Suspicious Activity Reports with high-quality narratives and supporting documentation.
- Conduct Enhanced Due Diligence on high-risk users and transactions.
- Review periodic customer risk profiles and recommend changes to risk ratings.
- Help tune transaction monitoring rules and scenarios to cut false positives without losing detection.
- Coach less experienced analysts on how to investigate and on the rules they need to follow.
- Work with Product, Risk and Legal on compliance input for initiatives and new product launches.
What it asks for
- 4+ years of hands-on AML experience, ideally in fintech or banking.
- In-depth knowledge of BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC sanctions and related requirements.
- Familiarity with regulators and guidance such as FinCEN and FATF, with practical experience applying them.
- Experience preparing and filing SARs, including well-structured narratives (preferred).
- Familiarity with financial crime risks in digital payments, money transmission, wallets or peer-to-peer platforms (preferred).
- AML certifications such as CAMS or CGSS (preferred).
Terms in this role
- KYC.
- Know your customer: checking who a user or business is before they can transact. Required in financial services.
- AML.
- Anti-money laundering: the rules and checks that stop criminal money moving through a service.
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About SpaceXAI
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About SpaceXAI
Social platforms · AI and model safety · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2023
Runs X and builds the Grok models, after SpaceX acquired xAI in 2026.
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