# Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Fraud & Risk at Polymarket

- Company: Polymarket
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://polymarket.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/4df7b096-1d82-4f09-9a17-665247b2c855
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/polymarket-senior-data-scientist-analyst-fraud-and-risk/

## 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

Tags: Data