Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Merkle Science provides blockchain transaction monitoring and intelligence solutions for various sectors including financial institutions and law enforcement. They are seeking a Data Scientist to design and implement clustering and attribution heuristics for analyzing large on-chain datasets and contribute to the company's mission of making cryptocurrencies safe.
Responsibilities
- Design, test, and ship clustering and attribution heuristics, and measure them with real precision/coverage metrics rather than vibes
- Own your data end to end — pull, clean, join, and model large on-chain datasets without depending on a separate team for every query
- Build and maintain the pipelines that take a heuristic from notebook to production, including backfills, incremental runs, and validation
- Investigate edge cases (mixers, bridges, exchange hot wallets, consolidation patterns) and translate findings into repeatable logic
- Partner with investigations and product to define what "correct" looks like and benchmark against ground truth
- Prototype quickly, then harden what works
Skills
- 4+ years building data science or data engineering systems that actually shipped (not just notebooks)
- Strong Python and SQL; comfortable with large datasets and the gotchas of joins, dedup, and skew at scale
- Solid grasp of clustering, graph/network analysis, or entity resolution — and a habit of validating results, not just producing them
- Ability to reason about precision vs. coverage trade-offs and defend your metrics
- Self-directed: you can scope an ambiguous problem, get the data yourself, and drive it to a result
Benefits
- Excellent health insurance
- Flexible time off
- Learning & development initiatives
- Hours that are designed to provide work/life balance
- We regularly host team-building sessions and encourage discussions around mental health
- Industry-leading compensation
- Generous equity
- Endless opportunities to grow your career with Merkle Science
Company Overview
Merkle Science is a software company that offers predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms for businesses and government agencies. It was founded in 2018, and is headquartered in Singapore, Central Region, SGP, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.merklescience.com.