Position Overview

Job Title: Software Development Engineer 2

Department: Technology

Location: Bangalore, India

Reporting To: Senior Research Manager - Data

Position Purpose

The Research Engineer – Data will play a pivotal role in advancing TookiTaki’s AI-driven compliance and financial crime prevention platforms through applied research, experimentation, and data innovation. This role is ideal for professionals who thrive at the intersection of research and engineering, turning cutting-edge data science concepts into production-ready capabilities that enhance TookiTaki’s competitive edge in fraud prevention, AML compliance, and data intelligence.

The role exists to bridge research and engineering by:
- Designing and executing experiments on large, complex datasets.
- Prototyping new data-driven algorithms for financial crime detection and compliance automation.
- Collaborating across product, data science, and engineering teams to transition research outcomes into scalable, real-world solutions.
- Ensuring the robustness, fairness,



and explainability of AI models within TookiTaki’s compliance platform.

Key Responsibilities

Applied Research & Prototyping
- Conduct literature reviews and competitive analysis to identify creative approaches for data processing, analytics, and model development.
- Build experimental frameworks to test hypotheses using real-world financial datasets.
- Prototype algorithms in areas such as anomaly detection, graph-based analytics, and natural language processing for compliance workflows.

Data Engineering for Research
- Develop data ingestion, transformation, and exploration pipelines to support experimentation.
- Work with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datasets at scale.
- Ensure reproducibility and traceability of experiments.

Algorithm Evaluation & Optimization
- Evaluate research prototypes using statistical, ML, and domain-specific metrics.
- Optimize algorithms for accuracy, latency, and scalability.
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📌 Software Development Engineer- Data (Bengaluru)
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