Department:
Engineering
Location:
Madrid
Compensation:
€95,000 - €115,000 / year
Description
Location:
Madrid, Spain
Annual Remuneration
: €95,000 - €115,000 and discretionary annual bonus
Pay Frequency
: Monthly
Probationary Period:
180 days
Work Arrangement
: Hybrid, 3-days per week
TL;DR
Kharon is seeking a full-time Senior Data Scientist, Graph Risk Analytics based in Madrid.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Taking ownership of Kharon's risk propagation and entity analytics system — the engine that evaluates entities in our knowledge graph and surfaces meaningful risk signals to customers
- Designing and implementing complex analytical logic that translate nuanced geopolitical and financial risk into structured, interpretable outputs
- Building and maintaining scalable data pipelines and graph-based ML systems that power risk scoring and entity analysis
- Partnering closely with Research, Product, and Engineering teams to understand evolving risk frameworks and translate them into robust, maintainable systems
- Iterating on the system's architecture to increase the complexity and precision it can handle — this is not a rip-and-replace, but a thoughtful evolution of a system already in production
- Exploring how LLMs and other AI techniques can be integrated to handle increasingly complex risk logic
Qualifications
- A proven interest or experience in general security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains
- 4+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, with demonstrated ownership of production systems
- Strong foundation in statistics and the ability to apply quantitative methods to complex, real-world problems
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and working with graph databases or knowledge graph structures
- Experience with graph analysis, graph ML, or network analysis — professional experience is a strong differentiator
- Comfort working across research and data engineering contexts — this role spans all three
- Experience with
📌 Senior Data Scientist, Graph Risk Analytics (Madrid)
🏢 Kharon
📍 Madrid