Staff Data Scientist, DocV

The role

This person will provide technical leadership for document verification solutions. They will set technical direction and oversee the full ML lifecycle from data strategy to production usage.

What you will do

• Serve as a domain expert in computer vision and machine learning.
• Oversee the end-to-end ML lifecycle.
• Guide and mentor data scientists through complex modeling and production challenges.
• Establish best practices and technical standards for model development and production readiness.
• Identify technical risks and opportunities to improve model performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Partner with engineering, product, and customers to translate needs into modeling strategies.
• Communicate model behavior and technical decisions to stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years or equivalent professional experience.
• Deep expertise in computer vision and machine learning.
• Proven experience designing, deploying, and improving production ML systems at scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple ML projects, including mentoring and guiding other experienced data scientists.
• Strong understanding of the full ML lifecycle.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to navigate complex and ambiguous modeling problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or a related field.
• Experience with document verification, OCR, identity, fraud detection, or image forensics.
• Experience with transformer-based vision models, multimodal systems, foundation models, or LLMs.
• Experience working with enterprise customers or in regulated environments.

About the company

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy. They verify identities in real time to stop fraud.