Data researcher (Student Position)

About the role:

As a Data Researcher (Student Position) at Forter, you will be instrumental in the core technology that underpins our fraud detection platform. This dual-focus role involves hands-on data infrastructure development and strategic contribution to our decisioning logic. You will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining near-real-time databases and features that directly impact our real-time decision-making systems.

Working with a cross-functional group of researchers, engineers, and data scientists, you will ensure the identity database supports both swift, real-time decisioning and critical, research-driven investigations. You will leverage rich datasets to derive actionable insights, contribute to the refinement of our core decisioning logic and models, and help develop the next generation of Forter’s AI technology.

This role is for a highly collaborative and technical individual who wants to shape the future of identity infrastructure and fraud detection, offering significant growth opportunities within a dynamic, excellence-driven environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build, and maintain near-real-time data bases and features impacting real time decision making
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of researchers, engineers and data scientists to ensure that identity data base supports both real-time decisioning and research-driven investigations
• Contribute to the design and refinement of the company’s core decisioning logic and models - informed by identity-data insights
• Leverage rich datasets to derive actionable insights, develop new system components, and advance our identity database monitoring processes
• Collaborate with a world-class team of Data Scientists, Analysts, Researchers, and Engineers to develop the next generation of Forter’s AI technology.
  
  

What you'll need:

• A bachelor’s student in a technical field (e.g. computer science), with at least 3 full semesters until graduation.
• Availability to work 3 days a week (60% position).
• Strong technical capabilities - experience writing Python code.
• Great multitasking skills - manage multiple tasks in various stages under your responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Team player with the ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  
  

It’d be really cool if you also:

• Experience with SQL and big data technologies (e.g., Spark).
• Analytical/research experience
  
  

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022, 2023 and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)
  
  

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe, ASOS, eBay, Instacart, Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

Hybrid work:

At Forter, we embrace a hybrid work model that blends in-person connection with the flexibility of remote work. Team members based near our key hubs are expected to work from the office at least three days per week. We believe that regular face-to-face collaboration fuels professional development, strengthens our culture, and builds the relationships that help teams thrive.

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