Senior Data Scientist, Trust

Job description

The Role As a Senior Data Scientist on Linktree’s Trust team, you will play a key role in protecting the integrity and health of our platform. You will apply your expertise in data science and statistical modeling to define how we measure harm, assess platform risk, and continuously improve our detection and mitigation systems. In this role, you will build and scale the core measurement framework that underpins Trust at Linktree, establishing clear, defensible definitions of harm prevalence, enforcement effectiveness, and user impact. You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Policy, Legal, and Operations to identify emerging abuse patterns, size their impact, and ensure our mitigation systems are effective and aligned with our risk tolerance. You will also play a central role in evaluating and strengthening our ML and LLM-based safety systems. This includes defining high-quality ground truth datasets, establishing statistically sound evaluation benchmarks, and implementing monitoring frameworks to ensure model quality and reliability in production. In partnership with Engineering, you will identify failure modes, improve detection quality, and build monitoring frameworks...