Data Scientist

Blowfish helps wallets protect users from fraud by providing real-time transaction analysis and threat detection.

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About Blowfish

Blowfish helps wallet developers protect their users from scams and fraud by providing security infrastructure through APIs. You can scan transactions, detect malicious domains, and simulate message signing. Blowfish enables proactive defense for web3 wallets across multiple blockchain networks.

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About the Role

You will take ownership of research and development initiatives and design, build, and maintain robust machine learning systems that detect threats and malware in blockchain transaction data. You will devise and run analytics experiments to find actionable insights from large event streams, apply sound ML experimentation and measurement practices, and produce reliable, production-ready data products. You will implement software engineering fundamentals in model development and deployment, work across data stacks and cloud infrastructure, and prioritize pragmatic, simple solutions to complex problems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • Masters or PhD preferred
  • 2+ years of commercial data science experience
  • Experience with event driven architectures is a plus
  • Well versed in Python
  • Proficient in SQL
  • Proficient in ML experimentation and measurement
  • Familiarity with the blockchain ecosystem
  • Understanding of software engineering fundamentals

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of research and development initiatives
  • Develop robust machine learning systems for cybersecurity use cases
  • Devise and run analytics experiments to find insights in data
  • Implement ML experimentation and measurement practices
  • Apply software engineering fundamentals to model development and deployment
  • Champion pragmatic Data Science practices

Benefits

  • Significantly above market rate equity compensation package
  • Comprehensive health insurance
  • Stipend for remote work setup (laptop, headphones, work gear)
  • Unlimited vacation with a minimum 20 day policy
  • Paid travel for periodic team on-sites