# Machine Learning Researcher

About the company Our client is a fast-growing financial technology company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Lead applied research on predictive models, dividing your time between inventing new modeling approaches and moving the strongest ones into live use. You will collaborate closely with senior technical and business leaders in an on-site team. What you'll do - Devote roughly 70% of your time to research, inventing and testing new model designs for risk prediction. - Mine sizable, imperfect in-house data to surface new features and predictive signals. - Investigate language-model and multimodal techniques that go beyond current tree-based approaches. - Devote roughly 30% of your time to production work, covering deployment, data sourcing needs and ongoing monitoring. - Work with a highly technical team and report to senior business and engineering leaders. Requirements What we're looking for - Roughly 5 to 10 years in applied machine learning research, where academic lab and doctoral work can count toward that time. - Hands-on background in an academic or university research lab. - An advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as comp

- **Id**: 3576834
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-machine-learning-researcher>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-16T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-16
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T05:00:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 25
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2294
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 22
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 250000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Pandas** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 25

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-31T22:14:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 32; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 32 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.44
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 25
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:1, agency, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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