[Remote] Data Scientist — Blockchain Intelligence

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

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