Senior Data Scientist (Graph Risk Analytics)

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 global security, financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, or related domains • 4+ years of experience…