Data Scientist at Dyneti (San Mateo, CA)
Dyneti· San Mateo, CA·
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About Us
At Dyneti, we believe digital payments should be seamless and secure. That’s why we built DyScan, a software library that allows digital merchants to prevent fraud and improve conversion by taking a photo of a credit card.
Dyneti was founded by a fraud prevention expert from Uber, and has raised funding from an exceptional lineup of investors, including Y Combinator. We’ve processed hundreds of millions of credit card scans around the world, and our customers include Fortune 100 companies and some of the fastest growing tech unicorns.
Job Overview
Join Dyneti as a founding member of the technical team. You will have the opportunity to work closely with the CEO and engineering to track emerging fraud trends, translate insights into product improvements, and build and launch your ideas. This role sits at the intersection of data, engineering, and real-world fraud strategy and is critical to shaping how DyScan evolves to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated attackers.
We’re Looking for Someone Who
- Enjoys significant ownership over user-facing product
- Can work independently
- Is comfortable turning research papers into product
- Has 2+ years experience with data science or has a PhD in a STEM field
- Has an interest in software engineering
- Builds with a product-first approach. You move quickly from analysis to action and care about measurable outcomes
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Dyneti is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Why work at Dyneti
- Mission-Driven: Employees are part of a team making the internet more secure and tackling the mission-critical challenge of reducing fraud while improving conversion.
- Culture & Values: Emphasizes humility, decisiveness in ambiguity, embracing the impossible, and delighting customers. The team values diversity and is committed to building a representative workforce.
- Work Environment: Based in San Francisco, with a startup environment that celebrates smart risk-taking and a bias to action.
- Perks & Benefits: Comprehensive health plans (medical, dental, vision), unlimited time off, annual company retreats to keep culture strong, and office refreshments (coffee, tea, snacks).
- Growth Trajectory: As a Y Combinator-backed, rapidly growing company with high-profile clients (DoorDash, PayPal, FlightHub), employees can expect significant ownership and impact.