Financial Crime and AML Compliance Expert for AI Training

Apply hands-on financial crime expertise to help train AI systems that recognize, assess, and respond to realistic fraud and compliance risks. This remote contract role focuses on designing and improving advanced financial-crime detection frameworks for financial platforms. Prior AI experience is not required.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and document a comprehensive library of fraud, scam, money laundering, and abuse scenarios for financial platforms.
• Define social-engineering red flags and typologies involving phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse.
• Create escalation grading scales and frameworks for evaluating the severity and risk of financial crime events.
• Develop benchmark criteria and detection frameworks to assess AI models'' ability to identify realistic fraud patterns and suspicious activity.
• Review and improve written guidance, workflows, and operational best practices for financial crime and AML compliance.
• Provide detailed, domain-grounded feedback on deliverables to ensure accuracy and practical relevance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to turn financial-crime insights into actionable detection and prevention strategies.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of recent, hands-on experience in fraud investigations, AML compliance, payments risk management, or a related financial-crime discipline.
• Expertise detecting and analyzing scams, phishing, money laundering, synthetic identity fraud, and marketplace abuse in fintech, banking, cryptocurrency, or digital-payment environments.
• A demonstrated record of operational excellence and thought leadership in financial crime prevention.
• An advanced degree, professional certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CFCS, or equivalent operational credentials in financial crime, AML/CTF, or compliance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex scenarios and frameworks to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience creating training materials, scenario libraries, or detection rulebooks is a strong advantage.
• Strong curiosity and analytical rigor for assessing evolving financial-crime typologies and adapting controls.

Work Terms

• Remote contract engagement.

Compensation

• $50 to $90 per hour.