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Senior Data Scientist

Senior Data Scientist

EllipticWashington, Washington DC, US
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Description

Do you want to be part of the future of value transfer?  Are you excited about solving problems that have never been solved before?  Are you looking for a values-led company, which cares about the growth of its employees?

The impact you will have :

Your task is the ruthless pursuit of blockchain identity labels through powerful modelling.

Your days are split between our proprietary dataset and on-chain developments, identifying the most effective models to build and building them.

Your team’s success is measured by the scale and value of the intelligence you generate and how well you can liaise with clients and partners to capture requirements. This intelligence powers everything we sell and everything we say here at Elliptic.

Key Responsibilities

What you will do :

  • Stay abreast of technical developments on chain and in the ecosystem through continuous research.
  • Use the knowledge you gain above to identify new tools and models to build. Prioritise based on efficiency, unit economics and value to our business.
  • Work in a highly collaborative global team with engineers, blockchain analysts, data scientists, researchers. Your shared goal is creating intelligence, each contributing in different ways.
  • Be deeply opinionated about where we’re spending our time (as the above team in particular, but also as a company), and how we can increase the value of our intelligence.
  • Own your time and output based on the above. Is your time better spent today building a model or researching a new more powerful model?
  • Participate in a collegiate group of blockchain experts, share your knowledge across our business and with our customers wherever it is effective.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

You will be a great fit here if you :

  • Are highly curious and sceptical.
  • Have experience digging into huge datasets, spotting quirks in the data and pulling the thread - finding the truth.
  • Can focus only on analysis or models which will  be useful for our business - cut through the noise.
  • Are entrepreneurial and create connections, both internally and within the community.
  • Are very interested in Cryptocurrencies.

    • Our ideal candidate :

  • Has a STEM degree.
  • Has experience defining effective metrics, monitoring the results and optimising accordingly.
  • Is comfortable querying data with SQL and Python.
  • Is comfortable using LLMs and has demonstrable AI development practical experience
  • Is comfortable building big data systems and liaise with the relevant teams to bring them to production
  • Has a solid understanding of blockchain ecosystem elements like DeFi, Exchanges, Wallets, Smart Contracts, mixers and privacy services.

    • Bonus Experience :

  • Databricks and PySpark
  • Building and maintaining data pipelines
  • Capture data requirements and build ad-hoc systems
  • Use of graph analytics and graph neural networks
  • Experience building agentic systems in the LangChain ecosystem
  • Are confident when presenting findings to stakeholders of varying technical expertise
  • Applied and advanced professional experience using data science and data exploitation techniques to analyse crime in cryptocurreny

    • Job Benefits

    How we work

    Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year

  • $500 remote working budget to set up your home office space

    • Learning & Development

  • $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development

    • Vacation / Leave

  • Holidays : 25 days of annual leave + public holidays (federal holidays observed in the US)
  • An extra day off for your birthday
  • Enhanced parental leave : we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave

    • Benefits

  • Competitive salary, along with share options
  • Private health insurance and access to Spill Mental Health Support
  • Work pension scheme (401k)
  • $100 worth of crypto for you!

    • Elliptic is the leader in digital asset decisioning, we have built the most comprehensive platform for efficiently extracting crypto data and intelligence across blockchains with the greatest accuracy.

    Our platform’s unrivalled uptime, scalability, depth and breadth of our data and intelligence means exacting organizations choose Elliptic for their compliance, risk management, intelligence operations and blockchain infrastructure needs.

    Founded in 2013, Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Washington D.C., UAE, Singapore and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and X .

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