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Airwallex

Staff Data Scientist, Algorithm (Payments Fraud & Optimization)

Singapore · Engineering · AI

Company
Supports businesses' cross-border payments, currency exchange, and card issuing on one platform.
Role
Designs and develops advanced algorithms that improve payment performance.

What you will do

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Responsibilities

  • Set and drive the technical strategy for payments optimization that balances conversion, fraud risk, and transaction cost.
  • Take direct technical ownership of complex, cross-functional problems.
  • Bring technical direction on optimization methods like contextual bandits and experimentation techniques such as A/B testing and causal inference.
  • Work with engineering to build the tools and infrastructure needed for optimization and ship ML systems to production.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Risk to shape strategy and investment decisions.
  • Coach junior data scientists and engineers.

What you need

  • Holds a PhD or master's degree in a quantitative field such as economics, computer science, statistics, or engineering.
  • 5+ years working professionally in data science or applied machine learning.
  • Track record of using experimentation and causal inference to drive real product decisions.
  • Strong command of SQL and Python or R.
  • Experience using LLMs or AI agents to improve workflows or ML models.

Good to have

  • Extensive experience shipping ML systems into production is a strong plus.
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