Senior Model Risk Manager - AI/ML

About the role

Mercury is building the financial stack - intuitive, powerful, and safe for entrepreneurs and businesses of all sizes. We have made a deliberate, company-wide bet on AI/ML. Across fraud detection, financial crime prevention, credit decisioning, and internal operations, machine learning and AI models are becoming core to how Mercury works, and that portfolio is growing fast.

As AI transforms financial services, every institution is being forced to ask a hard question: what does model risk management (MRM) actually mean in this new era? ML has powered fraud detection and credit decisioning for years, but the scope and technology has changed dramatically. Generative models, autonomous agents, and real-time systems are creating risks that existing MRM frameworks were never designed to govern. No one has fully solved this yet. We want to hire the person who will. Ideal candidates may come from a traditional model validation background with deep hands-on experience testing modern AI/ML systems, or from model development, applied AI, or research as data scientists, with a strong understanding of how risks emerge in complex systems and how to rigorously challeng

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