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