Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events across various topics. Backed by General Catalyst and Founders Fund.
About the role
Polymarket is looking for a Sr Data Scientist / Analyst, Fraud & Risk to proactively prevent and detect potential fraud and abuse on our platform, such as identity theft, account takeovers, farmed bonuses, collusive or manipulative trading, ACH fraud, and other behavior. You'll work closely with product and compliance, sitting between the data and the decisions about who gets to trade and under what conditions.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years in risk, fraud analytics, trust and safety, or a similar investigative analytical role
- Expert SQL. You can pursue a hypothesis across large behavioral datasets without supervision
- Pattern recognition instinct. You can look at a cluster of accounts and articulate what they share and why it is unlikely to be coincidence
- Experience building fraud detection rules or models, setting thresholds, evaluating precision and recall, monitoring performance, and adapting controls as risks evolve
- Sound judgment about user impact. You understand that every control has a cost to legitimate users, and you can weigh the two
- Comfort working alongside Compliance, with sound judgment and discretion in handling sensitive findings
More about this role
Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($115B traded to date) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
Polymarket is looking for a Sr Data Scientist / Analyst, Fraud & Risk to proactively prevent and detect potential fraud and abuse on our platform, such as identity theft, account takeovers, farmed bonuses, collusive or manipulative trading, ACH fraud, and other behavior. You'll work closely with product and compliance, sitting between the data and the decisions about who gets to trade and under what conditions.
This is a role for someone who enjoys adversarial problems. The behavior you're looking for is actively trying not to be found, and the...
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