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# Staff Data Scientist at Mercury

- **Company:** Mercury
- **Location:** San Francisco CA New York NY Portland OR OR Within Canada OR, United States
- **Compensation:** $226k–$299k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/6178814004

## Job description

In 1999 NASA lost contact with its Mars Climate Orbiter after a 9 month journey from Earth. It began its planned orbital insertion maneuver but went out of radio contact after passing behind Mars. While we may never know whether it was destroyed in the atmosphere or re-entered heliocentric space, we can draw the lesson that getting the details (in this case, units) right is critical, especially when shooting for the stars.

While Mercury’s cosmic journey may be more metaphorical, we have our own sky-high ambitions and the need to marry those with precise data analysis.

To that end, we are hiring a Machine Learning-focused Data Scientist to support our Risk team. This team is responsible not only for detecting, monitoring, and mitigating both first- and third-party fraud but also ensuring we know and understand our customers while monitoring their behavior for financial crime risk. You’ll play a key role in strengthening our fraud defenses while ensuring that Mercury continues to deliver a smooth and trustworthy banking* experience.

This is an opportunity to join Mercury at a pivotal moment in our growth. You’ll be working on some of the most critical challenges facing the business and collaborating across product, engineering, and risk to protect our customers and the financial system at large.

Here are some things you’ll do on the job:

- Build, validate, and deploy machine learning models to identify and prevent fraud in real time
- Support the reproducibility and robustness of said models through documentation, testing, and monitoring
- Ensure data quality and reliability across pipelines and tools
- Collaborate with Risk Strategy to ideate on model inputs and applications and with Engineering optimize deployment and observability
- Act as a technical lead prototyping, iterating on, and codifying best practices - and bringing the rest of the team along

You should have:

- 7+ years of experience working with and analyzing large datasets to solve problems and drive impact, with 5+ years of ML experience
- Proficiency in SQL and experience using it to understand and manage imperfect data
- Proficiency in Python and experience with statistical modeling and machine learning
- Experience deploying and monitoring machine learning models in production
- Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities
- Demonstrated ability to lead and empower others, delivering not just on your own work, but upleveling those around you
- The ability to drive strategic alignment between teams with differing roadmaps, timelines, or architectures

Ideally you also have:

- 1+ years of relevant risk experience
- Familiarity with LLMs or other GenAI and how they can be applied to risk or fraud detection
- Experience with modern data tools for pipelines and ETL (e.g., dbt)
- Experience with model governance as required in finance or other regulated industries
- Experience building zero-to-one solutions in ambiguous or greenfield problem spaces

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

## #LI-AC1

Total Rewards The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity relative to peers.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are the following:

US employees (any location): $239,000—$298,800 USD

Canadian employees (any location): $225,900—$282,400 CAD

## About Mercury

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mercury provides banking and financial workflow solutions for startups and ambitious companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (offices also in New York, NY and Portland, OR)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Fintech, Business Banking, Financial Operations
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily startups and growing companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Transformative banking for ambitious entrepreneurs” – making banking better and simplifying financial operations so businesses can focus on growth.

## Products & Services
- **Mercury Banking**: A powerful business bank account (checking, savings, debit and credit cards) that serves as the nucleus of financial operations. (Service)
- **Bill Pay & Spend Management**: Tools to pay bills, send invoices, monitor spending, and understand cash flow – all from one platform. (SaaS/Service)
- **Financial Operations Platform**: Integrates payments, invoices, bill pay, cash flow monitoring, and spend management into a single dashboard. (SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Over 200,000 startups use Mercury; employees count exceeded 1,000 (950+ as of one source, 919 U.S.-based employees reported by Great Place to Work).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by top-tier venture capitalists (specific names not disclosed in available sources). Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust (Members FDIC).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Within days of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure (March 2023), Mercury picked up more than $2 billion in deposits and retained 92% of those customers six months later.
  - Recognized on Fortune’s Best Medium Workplaces 2023 (ranked 16th), Forbes Fintech 50, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative.
  - 96% of employees say Mercury is a great place to work (Great Place to Work certified).

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-One Financial Hub**: Combines banking, payments, bill pay, and spend management in one platform, reducing the need for multiple tools.
- **Startup-First Design**: Built specifically for high-growth companies, with features that scale from early stage to established enterprise.
- **High Customer Retention**: Proven stickiness after the SVB crisis demonstrates strong trust and product-market fit.
- **Top-Tier Backing and Recognition**: Endorsed by leading investors and media, reinforcing credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out financial workflows (bill pay, spend management) to become the single source of truth for business finance.
- **AI Integration**: Hiring for roles like Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer, AI Engineering, and Model Risk Manager – indicating a push to embed AI/ML into products and internal processes.
- **Remote-First Talent**: Embracing a remote-first culture with physical offices in SF, NY, Portland, and hiring across the US and Canada.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “build relentlessly,” “think actively,” “be super helpful,” and “act with humility.” Employees report a strong sense of purpose and collaboration.
- **Remote & Hybrid Flexibility**: Remote-first with optional in-office hubs. Open roles are listed as “Any office or remote” in the US and Canada.
- **Benefits Package**:
  - Health, dental, vision insurance
  - 12+ weeks paid parental leave
  - $600 custom work-from-home equipment setup
  - Annual $1,000 learning & development budget
  - Paid 6-week sabbatical after 5 years
  - Weekly $100 food budget
  - Monthly $100 wellness budget
  - Monthly $50 cellphone reimbursement
  - Unlimited vacation (with mandatory minimum)
  - 401(k) matching up to 4% of base salary
  - Inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits (Carrot Fertility)
  - Pet-friendly offices with free lunch, snacks, and beverages
- **Growth Opportunities**: 950+ employees (as of one source) and growing; strong commitment to career development and high-impact work.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Stated priority to embrace every individual and provide tools for great work.

## Sources
1. [mercury.com/jobs](https://mercury.com/jobs) – Benefits, culture, open roles
2. [mercury.com/about](https://mercury.com/about) – Company overview, values, press mentions, Forbes quote
3. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury) – Current job listings
4. [linkedin.com/company/mercuryhq/jobs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mercuryhq/jobs) – LinkedIn jobs page
5. [greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7025113](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7025113) – Employee satisfaction certification, headcount

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