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Data Scientist, Antifraud

Higgsfield · Almaty, Kazakhstan · On-site

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About Higgsfield

Create images, videos, and voice content with Higgsfield AI from text prompts or references. Edit and upscale media, automate creative workflows with its AI agent, and generate content on web and mobile. Backed by Accel and Menlo.

About the role

We're building at the absolute frontier of AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools. Joining Higgsfield means becoming part of a high-impact team shaping the future of AI-native experiences, at a company that isn't just moving fast, but rewriting what fast looks like. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Genuine understanding of the adversarial setting: that your counterparty responds, that your training labels are generated by your own past decisions, and that offline AUC on a censored label set is close to meaningless
  • Strong SQL and Python on raw event data without help: joins across payments, usage and identity, window functions, cohort replay. Gradient boosting, and the judgment to know when a two-condition rule beats a model
  • Comfort with graph and linkage thinking — connected components, shared-attribute clustering, and an instinct for when a link is evidence and when it is coincidence
  • Precision-first evaluation instincts: precision at the operating point, cost-weighted error, and why you would take 20% recall at 90% precision over the reverse in an enforcement system
  • Unit-economics literacy: gross margin per account, what compute actually costs us, why a negative-margin customer may be entirely legitimate
  • The judgment to escalate rather than act when the evidence is thin, and to say so in writing
More about this role

Higgsfield AI is the fastest-scaling generative AI company in history, hitting $1B in annual revenue run rate, 30M+ users worldwide, 6M+ generations per day, and powering 390 of Fortune 500 brands.

We're building at the absolute frontier of AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools. Joining Higgsfield means becoming part of a high-impact team shaping the future of AI-native experiences, at a company that isn't just moving fast, but rewriting what fast looks like.

Generative video has a problem most subscription businesses don't: every unit we sell costs us real compute. A stolen password costs a streaming service nothing. An account farm on an unlimited generation plan costs us GPU-seconds, at scale, every hour it runs.

We have found organised operators running hundreds of accounts on a single card, reselling unlimited generations, and harvesting per-account promotional grants at industrial scale. We have also found that most of our negative-margin accounts are not abuse at all — they are ordinary heavy users on an unlimited plan, which is a pricing problem wearing a fraud costume. Telling those two populations apart, at account level, before the money is gone,...

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