# Staff Data Scientist, Watchlist at Socure

- Company: Socure
- What the company does: Socure is the leading AI-powered identity verification platform trusted by 3,000+ customers to verify consumers, businesses, & employees with confidence. Backed by Accel.
- Company website: https://www.socure.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: California - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $191K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure/188b635a-5534-4e1b-bdaf-1e6dfea86aad
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/socure-staff-data-scientist-watchlist/

## 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

Tags: AI and Data