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Many of the world’s biggest brands and publicly traded companies selling online rely on Riskified for guaranteed protection against chargebacks, to fight fraud and policy abuse at scale, and to improve customer retention. Developed and managed by the largest team of ecommerce risk analysts, data scientists and researchers, Riskified’s AI-powered fraud and risk intelligence platform analyzes the individual behind each interaction to provide real-time decisions and robust identity-based insights.\nRiskified is proud to work with incredible companies in virtually all industries including Booking.com, Acer, Gucci, Lorna Jane, GoPro, and many more.\nWe thrive in a collaborative work setting, alongside great people, to build and enhance products that matter. Abundant opportunities to create and contribute provide us with a sense of purpose that extends beyond ourselves, leaving a lasting impact. These sentiments capture why we choose Riskified every day. \nAbout the Role\nThe Data Science department powers Riskified’s core engine by building production-grade algorithmic solutions at immense scale. As a Staff Data Scientist on the Identity team, you will drive the innovation roadmap for our Identity Graph Engine. You will architect, research, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models - spanning graph neural networks, transformers, and deep tabular architectures - to solve complex entity resolution and fraud prevention challenges at scale.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nDrive Identity Graph Innovation: Architect and advance the next generation of our Identity Graph Engine using state-of-the-art graph models, transformers, and machine learning techniques.\nTechnical Leadership: Define the research roadmap for identity resolution, setting technical standards and guiding complex research projects from initial concept to high-throughput production systems.\nLarge-Scale Modeling: Build scalable predictive and representation-learning models over massive tabular, sequence, and graph-structured datasets.\nCross-Functional Architecture: Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Core Software, and Product teams to seamlessly integrate complex ML pipelines into real-time production environments.\nMentorship & SOTA Research: Benchmark and import cutting-edge academic research into practical business solutions while mentoring senior data scientists on modern modeling paradigms.\nQualifications\nEducation: M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.\nExperience: 6+ years of hands-on experience designing, training, and deploying complex machine learning models in large-scale production environments.\n Deep Learning & SOTA Models: Proven expertise with Transformers, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), or Advanced Tabular Learning architectures.\n Big Data Ecosystem: Strong practical experience working with large-scale distributed data processing systems (e.g., Spark, Databricks) and graph databases/frameworks.\nTechnical Influence: Proven track record of technical leadership, setting architectural direction, and translating complex business requirements into high-impact algorithmic solutions.\nAdvantages\nExperience in fraud detection, risk management, or fintech.\nExperience in Identity Resolution, Entity Disambiguation, Link Analysis, or Complex Network Modeling.\n\nLife at Riskified\nWe are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 750+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.\nOur Tel-Aviv team is currently working in a hybrid of remote and in-office work. We have recently moved to our new space in Tel Aviv - check it out here! \nSome of our Tel Aviv Benefits & Perks:\nEquity for all employees, Keren Hishtalmut, pension \nPrivate medical insurance, extra time off for parents and caregivers\nCommuter and parking benefits\nTeam events, fully-stocked kitchen,lunch stipend, happy hours, yoga, pilates, functional training, basketball, soccer\nWide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact\nCommitment to your professional development with global onboarding, skills-based courses, lunch & learns\nAwesome Riskified gifts and swag! \nIn the News\nGeektime: Riskified Goes Public\nWalla!: Happy Hour at the Riskified Offices\nGeektime Insider: A look at Riskified Tel Aviv\nGlobes: Riskified to contribute the highest amount up to date to Tmura\nGlobes: Riskified is among Israel’s fastest growing companies \nTechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Favorite E-commerce Site\nRiskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. 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