The Role

We’re hiring a Machine Learning Research Manager to lead our ML team and set the technical direction for how machine learning is applied across Arkose’s fraud detection and risk-scoring products. This is a builder-manager role: you’ll grow and coach a small, high-leverage team while staying hands-on with model design, architecture decisions, and code review. You’ll own the connection between fraud outcomes — detection accuracy, false positive rates — and the ML systems that drive them. This role will report to the SVP of Product.

What You’ll Do
- Define and drive Arkose’s Data Science and Machine Learning roadmap across Arkose Titan by aligning research with product priorities.
- Lead development and delivery of ML models and capabilities that power real-time fraud and risk decisioning at Arkose’s scale, in collaboration with detection engineering to turn emerging fraud patterns into features and models.
- Establish up-to-date MLOps practices — model governance, experimentation frameworks,



and end-to-end model lifecycle management — and own model performance in production, including precision/recall tradeoffs, drift monitoring, retraining cadence, and latency/cost constraints.
- Drive applied research in graph machine learning, behavioral analytics, and intelligent fraud detection systems — resulting in patents, publications, and product innovation.
- Manage, coach, and grow a team of ML researchers, including performance management, career development, and future hiring.
- Stay hands-on: contribute to model design, feature engineering, architecture reviews, and code/PR review alongside the team.
- Translate fraud and business metrics into measurable ML objectives, and communicate roadmap and tradeoffs to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For
- 10+ years building and deploying ML models in production, including 2+ years directly managing ML engineers or data scientists.
- A track record of shipping ML systems that moved a real

📌 Senior Manager, Machine Learning (Pune)
🏢 Arkose Labs
📍 Pune