# Data Scientist, Fraud Risk Detection

Experian is hiring a Data Scientist, Fraud Risk Detection to investigate fraud patterns, develop features, and build and evaluate machine learning models. The role supports the model development lifecycle and contributes to fraud detection solutions across account opening, account takeover, and identity risk. Responsibilities Explore large datasets, with guidance from senior team members, to identify fraud patterns, attack methods, and behavioral signals Work with senior data scientists to translate fraud questions into testable hypotheses and analytical approaches Help build machine learning models for fraud detection across account opening, account takeover, and identity risk Evaluate models using both technical and business metrics, such as precision, recall, fraud capture rate, false-positive rate, and customer friction Develop and validate features using identity, transactional, behavioral, and other available data sources Write clean, well-tested code, and work with engineering to bring models and features into production Partner with the score monitoring team to help set up model and feature monitoring, and support research on related client questions Help prepare analyses

- **Id**: 4150624
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/experianplc-data-scientist-fraud-risk-detection>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Costa Mesa, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T04:42:58Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T04:42:58Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3199
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Credit Bureaus & Rating Agencies, Financial Data & Market Intelligence

## Company

- **Id**: 93777
- **Name**: Experianplc
- **Domain**: experianplc.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/experianplc>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 74000
- **Max**: 128000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 128000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Scikit-learn** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T08:58:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: seen:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 128000
- **Is top pay**: no

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