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About the Role
This is a full-time W-2 opportunity with Cincinnatus LLC. As part of this role, you may be staffed as a contractor with a leading technology company. You'll join a trust & safety function protecting a high-traffic, consumer-facing platform from fraud and abuse. Partnering with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders, you'll investigate ambiguous, evolving abuse patterns - applying investigative rigor and creative analysis to get to root cause. Over time, you'll build specialized subject-matter expertise across the many forms this abus
What You'll Do
Investigate ambiguous cases end-to-end, turning findings into data-backed conclusions that keep user trust as the top priority
Pull together varied data sources and signals to trace deceptive or manipulative activity, and help design new detection experiments
Document findings clearly - a well-reasoned narrative backed by concrete evidence - so others can act on your conclusions
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Common Questions
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$15-$25/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Investigate ambiguous cases end-to-end, turning findings into data-backed conclusions that keep user trust as the top priority Pull together varied data sources and signals to trace deceptive or manipulative activity, and help design new detection experiments Document findings clearly - a well-reasoned narrative backed by concrete evidence - so others can act on your conclusions
