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
We are looking for a Staff Data Scientist to join Socure's Watchlist Data Science team. Watchlist sits at the heart of global AML compliance — our platform screens hundreds of millions of entities in real time across sanctions lists, PEP databases, and adverse media sources for banks, fintechs, and payment companies worldwide.
What they're looking for
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 7+ years of experience in data science or machine learning, with meaningful work in NLP, entity resolution, or information extraction
- Experience in AML, sanctions screening, adverse media, or financial crime detection is strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience building and deploying NLP pipelines for entity extraction, named entity recognition, and record linkage at production scale
- Familiarity with multilingual NLP and non-Latin script processing is a strong plus
- Experience with LLMs and agentic AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain/LangGraph) is a plus
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.
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...
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