Associate Fraud Strategy Data Scientist

Job overview

The Associate Fraud Strategy Data Scientist role is onsite in San Jose, CA. Compensation is not specified in the structured pay fields; the posting lists a pay rate of $50 per hour. The role supports the Fraud Risk Strategy team at a growing cloud-based software company. The data scientist supports fraud detection, risk analysis, and loss mitigation by developing analytics, strategies, and predictive models. The work helps the team address emerging fraud trends while supporting a positive customer experience through scalable, real-time data-driven solutions.

What you'll do

• Design rules to detect and mitigate fraud
• develop Python scripts and models
• investigate novel or large cases and identify root causes
• set strategies for different risk types
• collaborate with product and engineering on control capabilities and execution
• develop and present strategies
• build dashboards and visualizations to track strategy KPIs
• communicate findings and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

associate data scientist

fraud strategy

san jose ca

cypress hcm

fraud detection

risk analytics

python

sql

tableau

predictive algorithms

cloud-based software

$50 per hour

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Fraud-risk analytics role requiring SQL, Python, Excel, data visualization including Tableau, and experience with large datasets; AWS and fraud investigation experience are listed as bonuses.

About the employer

Cypress HCM is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.