Socure is the leading AI-powered identity verification platform trusted by 3,000+ customers to verify consumers, businesses, & employees with confidence. Backed by Accel.
About the role
The Big Data R&D team is responsible for building the core identity graph and entity-resolution capabilities that power Socure’s Deceased Monitoring and compliance products. In this role, you will help develop graph-based algorithms and data pipelines on massive PII datasets, support modelers with high-quality features, and evaluate new data sources that feed our identity and fraud products.
What they're looking for
- Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience, or Ph.D. with 1+ years of experience in a data science or analytics role, or equivalent practical experience
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language used in data science (Python, or Scala)
- Solid experience writing and optimizing SQL for large datasets, comfort working in data lake / warehouse environments
- Hands‑on experience with Spark or PySpark and common ML libraries (e.g., scikit‑learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/PyTorch a plus)
- Familiarity with UNIX environments and the AWS ecosystem (e.g., EMR, S3), Databricks experience is a plus
- Working knowledge of supervised/unsupervised ML and basic statistics (similarity measures, clustering, evaluation metrics)
More about this role
Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day.
We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.
The Big Data R&D team is responsible for building the core identity graph and entity-resolution capabilities that power Socure’s Deceased Monitoring and compliance products. In this role, you will help develop graph-based algorithms and data pipelines on massive PII datasets, support modelers with high-quality features, and evaluate new data sources that feed our identity and fraud products. You will work closely with senior data scientists and engineers while developing your skills in large-scale ML, distributed systems, and graph...
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