# Staff Data Scientist, Algorithm (Payments Fraud & Optimization)

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Singapore
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Data Scientist to drive the technical direction of our Payments Optimization team. This is a critical Individual Contributor (IC) role that will focus on designing and implementing advanced algorithms to optimize payments. You will act as a key strategic partner to Product, Engineering, and Commercial leaders, identifying complex, unique opportunities to improve payments performance and drive product adoption at scale.

## Responsibilities:

- Define and drive the technical strategy for multi-objective payments optimization, ensuring that AWX optimizes payment conversion rates, fraud risk, and transaction costs.

- Act as the strong technical owner on cross-functional initiatives, solving unique, critical, and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business.

- Provide technical thought leadership on various optimization algorithms (e.g. contextual bandits) and experimentation techniques (e.g. A/B testing, causal inference).

- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and build tools and infrastructure to enable optimization at scale and deploy ML systems to production.

- Partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, and other cross-functional teams to inform and influence product strategy and investment decisions.

- Clearly and persuasively communicate complex data insights and technical recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring your findings influence stakeholders at all levels.

- Mentor and coach junior data scientists and engineers.

## Qualifications:

- Advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or related disciplines.

- 5+ years of industry experience in data science or applied ML.

- Proven experience in experimentation and causal inference to drive data-informed product decisions with concrete impact.

- Strong experience in deploying ML systems to production is a big plus.

- Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader, defining and developing critical systems and influencing product strategy in high-growth environments.

- Proficient in SQL and Python/R.

- Experience using LLM, AI and Agent to improve processes and ML models

## Why Join Us:

- Opportunity to work on impactful problems that directly influence payments success and business outcomes.

- Collaborate with a talented, cross-functional team in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

- Drive the adoption of advanced data science techniques and experimentation to improve customer and business outcomes.

## Skills

### Required
- Statistics
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Economics
- SQL
- Python/R
- LLM
- AI
- Agent

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