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Plaid · 3 hours ago

Data Scientist - Fraud

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid Level
money$162K/yr - $222K/yr
date3+ years exp

Plaid is a company dedicated to empowering the transformation of financial interactions. As a Data Scientist on Plaid’s Fraud Data team, you will analyze customer and network traffic, build dashboards, run backtests, and design data models to enhance fraud detection products.

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Responsibilities

Work at the intersection of product analytics, machine learning, and fraud/risk to drive meaningful product improvements
Own the metrics, dashboards, and experimentation frameworks that inform product strategy and decision-making
Analyze complex datasets to uncover clear, actionable insights that shape product direction
Partner with go-to-market teams to demonstrate the technical and business value of our products to customers

Qualification

SQLPythonProduct analyticsExperimentation frameworksBacktesting methodologiesDashboard designStakeholder managementFraud domain experienceModel performance metricsCustomer-facing analytics

Required

3–5 years of total experience, including at least 2–3 years working deeply with product analytics, experimentation, or data-driven products
Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
Hands-on experience with product analytics, experimentation frameworks, or backtesting methodologies
Skilled in designing, building, and maintaining dashboards and core product performance metrics
Capable of designing and interpreting backtests or offline evaluations for ML and rules-based systems
Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder-management skills across diverse teams

Preferred

Background in fraud or risk domains — Nice to have
Familiarity with data-insights products and a solid understanding of model-performance metrics — Nice to have
Exposure to customer-facing or GTM-facing analytics — Nice to have

Benefits

Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)

Company

Plaid

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Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
dateFounded in 2013
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size501-1000 employees
web-link
https://plaid.com

H1B Sponsorship

Plaid has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (41)
2024 (41)
2023 (42)
2022 (53)
2021 (30)
2020 (11)

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage
Total Funding
$1.31B
Key Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown

Leadership Team

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Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
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Eric Sager
COO
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