Fraud Detection Expert - Financial Crimes

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Fraud Detection Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $60–$70/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Construct enterprise fraud scenarios for large-scale transaction monitoring, multi-stakeholder investigation workflows, and complex regulatory reporting cycles at Fortune 500 institutions.
• Build tasks across F500 payment fraud, account takeover, identity theft, AML, synthetic identity fraud, and merchant/card network fraud.
• Develop fraud operations scenarios using tools like SAS Fraud Management, Actimize, Feedzai, and enterprise case management/transaction monitoring platforms.
• Apply enterprise fraud detection methodologies, including rules-based and ML-driven detection models, network/link analysis, KYC/AML frameworks, and BSA compliance.
• Author rubrics that distinguish authentic enterprise fraud investigation judgment from generic textbook or certification-exam-level recall.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 5+ years in fraud detection, financial crimes investigation, or AML compliance at a Fortune 500 bank, payments company, or financial institution.
• Direct ownership of F500-scale fraud detection programs, investigation caseloads, or transaction monitoring systems.
• Fluency in enterprise fraud detection tooling and methodologies, with an understanding of F500 regulatory reporting, law enforcement coordination, and case escalation.

Preferred

• Prior rubric, fraud-investigation training curriculum, or case documentation authorship.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

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• For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.