Senior Data Scientist, ML— Fraud Prevention
- Location
- 6 Locations
- Salary range
- USD $133,100 – $236,400 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- Investigations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $130k to $185k. 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 8+ years · posts $133k to $236k base.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Adobe's posting.
Builds and evaluates machine learning models for fraud and abuse detection, covering the full fraud lifecycle from ground-truth labeling and modeling through performance measurement and monitoring. The role sits in a fraud detection and effectiveness team and works with engineering, product, policy and risk teams to improve detection and quantify business impact.
What you'd do
- Tune classical and statistical ML models that catch fraud and abuse.
- Create the datasets, metrics and assessment methods used to judge how well models and controls work.
- Analyze false positives and false negatives, model drift and emerging fraud patterns.
- Define ground truth, labeling approaches and fraud taxonomies for model development and evaluation.
- Run experiments weighing precision, recall, customer impact and fraud loss.
- Build dashboards that translate detection performance into business impact.
- Check models and data for leakage, bias and data-quality problems that could mislead results.
What it asks for
- 8 years in applied data science or ML, including building and evaluating production models.
- Strong grounding in statistical and classical ML, experimentation and performance measurement.
- Strong hands-on Python and SQL with large, complex datasets.
- Experience with model monitoring, drift, and imperfect or delayed labels.
- Strong data visualization and ability to present findings to leadership.
- Bachelor's in statistics, math, computer science or related field; advanced degree a plus.
Terms in this role
- Prevalence.
- How often people see violating content, usually counted as views of it per 10,000 views. A common way to measure enforcement.
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About Adobe
AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Government, NGO and academia · San Jose, CA · Founded 1982
Software for creative work, PDF documents and marketing, sold as Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud and Adobe Express.
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