Senior Data Scientist

23 ore fa

monzabrianza, lombardia, Italia Klarna Tempo pieno
Overview

In this second-line role, you validate fraud models used to protect payments, logins, and identity at Klarna. You’ll reproduce results, stress-test methodologies, and ensure governance and production readiness across the full model lifecycle. You work closely with first-line teams to surface risks and maintain model trust at scale. You’ll shape validation tooling and agentic AI workflows to keep validation pace with rapid development. This is a mission-driven opportunity to strengthen fraud defenses at a large, data-driven fintech.

Retribuzione / Benefits
  • competitive compensation
  • hybrid/onsite work (2–3 days in office)
  • diverse, inclusive culture
  • opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI
  • impactful role in safeguarding payments
  • career growth and cross-team collaboration
Responsabilità
  • Assess model performance using fraud-specific metrics and balance business trade-offs
  • Review large transaction datasets and feature pipelines for representativeness and leakage
  • Evaluate drift detection, retraining strategies, and production monitoring
  • Assess CI/CD and deployment controls (Docker, Jenkins, AWS) for model environments
  • Evaluate governance documentation, explainability, and regulatory compliance
  • Validate emerging techniques (graph networks, anomaly detection, GenAI-based systems) and document risks
  • Communicate validation outcomes and risks to data scientists, ML engineers, and stakeholders
Requisiti fondamentali
  • 3+ years hands-on fraud modeling
  • Fluency in Python and SQL; experience with PySpark or Spark
  • Experience with tree-based models (LightGBM), anomaly detection, graph/network models
  • Experience across ML lifecycle from feature engineering to deployment and monitoring
  • Ability to explain complex models and communicate to non-technical stakeholders
  • Knowledge of model risk governance, bias, fairness, and privacy considerations
  • Experience building or validating agentic AI workflows
  • Bonus: advanced degree in quantitative field; domain experience in BNPL or payment products
  • Mentor or lead validation discussions is a plus
  • strong communication skills
  • ability to challenge approaches constructively
  • detail-oriented with risk awareness
  • LightGBM
  • anomaly detection
  • graph models