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Lead Machine Learning Scientist, FinCrime

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK.

Company

Monzo

Location

Cardiff, London or Remote (UK)

Status

Open

Posted

2026-07-08T12:04:26+00:00

Monzo seeks a Lead Machine Learning Scientist for its Machine Learning FinCrime team. The role is a technical individual contributor leading design and development of real-time ML models for fraud and financial crime detection, including neural network, graph-based and sequence-based architectures. The person works in a cross-functional product squad, mentors across the ML discipline, and partners with MLOps. The posting asks for extensive production Python and SQL, deep learning/graph/sequence deployment experience, and a track record of shipping models with measurable business impact. Distinctive: financial crime focus and technical leadership.