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# Staff/Senior Data Scientist, Entity Resolution Team at Enigma

- **Company:** Enigma
- **Location:** New York NY OR Los Angeles, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio/jobs/8213483

## Job description

The Opportunity

This is an exciting time at Enigma. We’re on the cusp of releasing our next generation of small business intelligence products built on years of learnings in the space. We are seeking an  experienced Data Scientist to join our Entity Resolution team and help shape the trajectory of these products. Your work will directly impact the accuracy, scalability, and predictive capabilities of our data platform, influencing key business decisions for our customers.

## The Role

Data is at the core of Enigma’s product, which makes data science the beating heart of what we ship.  As a Data Scientist on the Entity Resolution Team, you will work in a cross-functional team alongside other data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. You will own problems end to end–from raw source data, through models and scalable pipelines, to the customer interface. Your impact will be measured by the contributions you make with your team to improve the accuracy of our data and the value of our product to our customers.

## What You’ll Do

- Translate customer goals into working solutions, using large-scale data transformation, sound statistics, and high-quality code. Most of our work is in Databricks (both Spark SQL + PySpark), supported by statistical tooling, and by ML/AI where the problem calls for it.
- Set a high standard for rigorous analysis and model development, grounded in sound statistical practice, so that results are high-quality and reproducible.
- Treat data as a reflection of the real world, and develop repeatable strategies for validating results against ground truth.
- Develop techniques to detect gaps in our data, find the source, and close them in a way that improves the product.
- Apply a data-focused, first-principles approach to problem solving. We value people who bias toward simple and elegant solutions, but who can implement state-of-the-art models and techniques when the problem requires it

What Makes This Role Exciting?

- Technical challenge: Enigma is solving some of the hardest problems in the world related to entity resolution. You will be critical to our success.
- Ownership and Impact: Data science at many companies supports product and business decisions.  At Enigma, data science is the product. You will work directly with customers and internal teams in an environment of high trust and responsibility.
- Learning: We’re tackling problems with exciting data that don’t have obvious solutions. Every day brings new opportunities to learn about data science and our world.

Our Ideal Candidate

- Brings 6-8+ years of industry experience in statistics, experiment design, and distributed machine learning, with a track record of using it creatively to deliver customer impact.
- Has experience as a tech lead or as a mentor to other data scientists.
- Holds strong opinions and defends them, but is open-minded to other perspectives and approaches. Disagrees openly, commits completely, and never lets a debate cost the team its momentum.
- Communicates effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Can’t leave a data problem alone until it’s right. Learns fast, ships fast, and would rather put something real in front of customers this month than something perfect next year.
- Takes a principled, metrics-driven approach to solving complex data problems.
- Holds an advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics), or has equivalent industry experience.

Bonus Points If You

- Have built data products in the entity resolution, sales, marketing, KYB, or credit underwriting space.
- Have prior experience in Python, Spark, and Databricks.
- Have prior experience working with large and complex data pipelines.

## About Us

At Enigma, we’re building the single, most reliable source of data on businesses to power the future of financial services. By engineering better data from hundreds of public and third-party sources, we aim to tell the complete story of every business, so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive. Our core values – generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive – guide everything we do, from how we make our most important product decisions to how we work with and support one another on a daily basis. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together. If this resonates, we would love to hear from you!

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

Salary Range: $180,000-$270,000

A note on salary ranges: we pride ourselves on paying competitively for our size and industry. Salary is one piece of a total Enigma compensation package that includes additional benefits and opportunities. All of our compensation packages include equity because we believe 100% of Enigma employees should have the option to purchase ownership in the company and benefit from the value we’re creating together.

## About Enigma

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Enigma provides a business identity infrastructure platform that resolves public and third-party data into a comprehensive profile for every U.S. business, powering verification, risk, and growth use cases.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Late-stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in provided materials

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Data Analytics, Financial Services Technology (FinTech), Risk & Compliance.
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily targeting Enterprise and SMB-focused financial institutions, payment processors, and fintech companies. Specific customer roles include Risk & Compliance Leaders and Payments Leaders.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To provide comprehensive intelligence about the identity and financial health of small and medium businesses, creating a single source of truth so that companies of every size can access the financial services they need to grow and thrive.

## Products & Services
- **Enigma Identity Graph**: The core product, a knowledge graph that links 100M+ registrations, 30M+ brands, and 2B+ relationships into a single, unified profile for every U.S. business. It cross-references websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active.
- **KYB & Onboarding**: A solution to automate Know Your Business (KYB) verification using government sources, designed to onboard more customers and reduce operational costs.
- **Customer & Transaction Screening**: A risk and compliance tool for screening customers and transactions against sanctions lists and internal risk appetites, for both initial onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
- **Merchant Transactions Signals**: Data derived from over 30 billion anonymized transactions (representing $4.5+ trillion in annual volume) to provide payment leaders with insights on merchant payment volume and identify growth opportunities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided materials (requires further research).
- **Growth Signals**: The company is actively hiring for senior engineering and go-to-market roles, indicating a growth phase. They market a specific "Merchant Transactions Signals" product derived from a massive card panel, suggesting significant data network effects.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Business Identity Graph**: Their key differentiator is solving the "chaotic problem of business identity" by linking brands, DBAs, locations, and legal entities into a single profile, going beyond simple DBA matching.
- **Data Depth & Scale**: Combines hundreds of public and third-party sources with proprietary machine learning to provide a more complete and accurate view of a business. Their card transaction data panel (30B+ transactions) is a unique data moat.
- **Reliability**: Employs cross-referencing of websites and operational signals to confirm a business is active and real, filtering out "ghost" businesses, which is a major pain point in financial services.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Enablement**: Their product is designed to be queried by both people and AI agents. They position the Identity Graph as providing "ground truth" for AI systems, which is a clear strategic priority.
- **Platform for Financial Services**: The company is focused on being the infrastructure layer for financial services, powering workflows for "KYB, underwriting, and sanctions screening."
- **Growth & Product-Led**: They have a dedicated "Product Lead, Growth" and "Senior Software Engineer, Growth" role, indicating a strategic focus on building a growth engine around their product.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes core values of "generosity, curiosity, ingenuity, & drive" and describes itself as a team of "curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds."
- **Transparent Compensation**: Enigma has a formal, transparent compensation philosophy based on "Five Levels of Impact," with salary and equity ranges shared internally. They conduct semi-annual performance reviews and calibrations, which they report receives positive employee feedback.
- **Work Environment**: Offers a hybrid workspace where employees can choose to work remotely or from offices in New York, NY or Los Angeles, CA, with a flexible policy. They prioritize hiring in the NYC/LA/SF markets.
- **Technology & Team**: Uses a modern tech stack (Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, React, etc.) and is actively building a strong engineering team, as evidenced by multiple senior-level openings.
- **Benefits**: Offers a broad set of perks including 401(K), company equity, parental/family leave, disability and life insurance, free snacks, and commuter benefits.

## Sources
1. [Job Boards (Greenhouse)](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/enigmaio)
2. [Enigma.com Official Site](https://www.enigma.com/)
3. [Built In NYC](https://builtin.com/company/enigma)
4. [Enigma Blog: Compensation Philosophy](https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/our-compensation-philosophy-transparency-uniformity-fairness)
5. [About Us Page](https://enigma.com/company/about-us)

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