PhD Research Intern – Graph Learning & Agentic AI for Fraud Detection

Job description

Why Socure? Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day. We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading. About the Role: Socure is seeking a PhD Research Intern to join our Fraud Data Science team for Summer 2026. This internship offers the opportunity to work on frontier machine learning research at the intersection of graph-based learning (including GNNs and graph transformers) and agentic AI systems, applied to large-scale, adversarial fraud detection problems. Fraud detection presents uniquely challenging research conditions: dynamic and heterogeneous graphs, extreme class imbalance, evolving adversaries, weak supervision, and real-...