About this role
Apply hands-on financial crime expertise to help shape advanced detection frameworks and train AI systems to recognize, assess, and respond to realistic fraud and compliance risks. This remote contractor opportunity centers on turning practical knowledge into high-quality scenarios, evaluation criteria, guidance, and feedback for financial platforms.
Key Responsibilities- Design and document a comprehensive library of fraud, scam, money laundering, and abuse scenarios for financial platforms.
- Define social-engineering warning signs and typologies, including phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse.
- Create escalation scales and frameworks for assessing the severity and risk of financial crime events.
- Develop benchmark criteria and detection frameworks to evaluate AI recognition of realistic fraud patterns and suspicious activity.
- Review and improve written guidance, workflows, and operational best practices for financial crime and AML compliance.
- Provide detailed, domain-accurate feedback on project deliverables and collaborate with cross-functional teams on actionable detection and prevention strategies.
- At least 5 years of recent, hands-on experience in fraud investigations, AML compliance, payments risk management, or a related financial crime field.
- Expertise detecting and analyzing scams, phishing, money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse in fintech, banking, crypto, or digital payments.
- A demonstrated record of operational excellence and thought leadership in financial crime prevention.
- An advanced degree, professional certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS, or equivalent operational credentials in financial crime, AML/CTF, or compliance.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex scenarios and frameworks to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience creating training materials, scenario libraries, or detection rulebooks is strongly preferred.
- Analytical rigor and curiosity to evaluate emerging financial crime typologies and adapt controls accordingly.
- Remote contractor engagement.
- No prior AI experience is required. Financial crime and AML domain expertise is the primary requirement.
- $50 to $90 per hour.