# Senior Data Scientist - Risk ML at Mercury

- Company: Mercury
- What the company does: Everything you do with money. All in one place. Apply in 10 minutes for business banking that transforms how you operate. Backed by Sequoia, a16z and 500 Global.
- Company website: https://mercury.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/6179231004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/mercury-senior-data-scientist-risk-ml/

## About the role

To that end, we are hiring a Machine Learning-focused Data Scientist to support our Risk team. This team is responsible not only for detecting, monitoring, and mitigating both first- and third-party fraud but also ensuring we know and understand our customers while monitoring their behavior for financial crime risk. You’ll play a key role in strengthening our fraud defenses while ensuring that Mercury continues to deliver a smooth and trustworthy banking* experience.

## What they're looking for

- Build, validate, and deploy machine learning models to identify and prevent fraud in real time
- Support the reproducibility and robustness of said models through documentation, testing, and monitoring
- Ensure data quality and reliability across pipelines and tools
- Collaborate with Risk Strategy to ideate on model inputs and applications and with Engineering optimize deployment and observability

Tags: Data