Senior Data Scientist Analyst Risk
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
Funding history
About Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform where users can trade on the outcomes of various events, leveraging the power of free markets to forecast the future. It provides a mechanism for users to bet on real-world events and earn money based on the outcomes.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will investigate abuse patterns including fake and duplicate signups, bonus farming, wash trading, collusion, and market manipulation. You will combine on-chain, device, and behavioral signals to build detections; quantify financial exposure; convert investigations into monitoring and alerts; partner on onboarding, verification, and bonus controls; support compliance investigations and reporting; and document detection thresholds and rationale.
Requirements
- 7+ years in risk, fraud analytics, trust and safety, or a similar investigative analytical role
- Expert SQL
- Pattern recognition across behavioral datasets
- Experience building detection rules or models
- Judgment regarding false positives and missed abuse
- Ability to work with compliance and handle sensitive findings
- Experience with on-chain analysis, wallet clustering, or blockchain forensics is a plus
- Experience with trade surveillance, market manipulation detection, or AML is a plus
- Anomaly detection, graph analysis, or clustering in Python or R is a plus
- Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products is a plus
Responsibilities
- Investigate abuse across the funnel
- Quantify multi-accounting, fake signups, bonus farming, wash trading, collusion, and manipulation
- Build detection logic using on-chain, device, and behavioral signals
- Create recurring monitoring and alerting
- Size financial exposure for each abuse vector
- Partner on onboarding, verification, and bonus controls
- Support compliance investigations, escalations, and regulatory reporting
- Promote detection logic into the modeled layer
- Document detection thresholds and rationale
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health coverage
- Full vision coverage
- Full dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro
- Big display
- Accessories
