Research Scientist

The role

You will research how to detect fraud and verify identities more accurately. This includes detecting AI-generated images, understanding model performance across populations, and finding patterns in attacker behavior.

What you will do

• Lead research on open problems in identity verification and fraud prevention.
• Develop methods to detect manipulated documents, AI-generated images and emerging fraud attacks.
• Evaluate how reliably models perform across different populations.
• Uncover patterns in verification data that reveal fraud.
• Calibrate model confidence and measure fraud events with limited labeled data.
• Partner with ML and engineering to turn research prototypes into production models.
• Publish at top venues such as CVPR, NeurIPS and USENIX Security.

Required qualifications

• Deep expertise in one of the following: Computer vision, Mathematics and statistics, or Identity or fraud prevention.
• A demonstrated record of peer-reviewed publications in relevant conferences or journals.
• Ability to independently lead research and design rigorous experiments.
• Clear communication to explain experimental design, findings, and limitations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• A PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
• An MS and an exceptional research record.
• Research on deepfakes, presentation attacks or adversarial robustness.
• Experience with noisy, imbalanced real-world data.
• Experience shipping ML research to production.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision
• 3% 401(k) contribution
• Unlimited PTO
• Quarterly mental health days
• Family planning benefits
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness benefits
• Private medical insurance (UK)
• Dental insurance (UK)
• 6% employer pension contribution (UK)
• Monthly wellness stipend (UK)
• Co-working stipend (UK)

Before you apply

• All candidates will be asked to verify their identity with Persona.

About the company

Persona is a configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. The company serves a wide range of leading companies, including Reddit and OpenAI.