Technical Research Consultant, Identity Verification

1Kosmos

. Identify identity-verification, authoritative-data, eID, document-verification, biometric, liveness, deepfake, fraud-signal, bank-verification, and related providers for product requirements .

Posted 9/22/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong hands-on experience with third-party APIs and SDKs, technical research skills, and the ability to translate business requirements into structured evaluation criteria. Proficient in identity verification, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance within the digital identity and fintech sectors.

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API IntegrationPython ProgrammingTechnical Research SkillsIdentity Verification ExperienceRegulatory Compliance Knowledge

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Hard Skills

API ConsumptionSDK IntegrationPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptRESTOAuthPostmanGitCloud Tooling

Soft Skills

Written CommunicationIndependent WorkCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

PostmanCurlResearch Automation ToolsMonitoring Pipelines

Industry Keywords

Identity VerificationKYCFraud PreventionBiometricsDigital IdentityCybersecurityFintechPaymentsTrust and SafetyGovernment eID Programs

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityJavaScriptPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify identity-verification, authoritative-data, eID, document-verification, biometric, liveness, deepfake, fraud-signal, bank-verification, and related providers for product requirements
Research regional options, especially Southeast Asian and other priority international markets
Determine technical availability and operational usability, including production eligibility, onboarding, approvals, geographic restrictions, licensing, minimums, and commercial dependencies
Validate vendor claims using primary sources, technical documentation, independent benchmarks, public test results, standards, and hands-on testing
Integrate and test third-party REST APIs and SDKs in sandbox or test environments
Build proof-of-concept applications and test harnesses using lightweight scripting and API tools
Evaluate authentication, request/response structure, errors, webhooks, latency, rate limits, sandbox-to-production differences, observability, documentation, and integration effort
Prototype fraud and biometric concepts and compare results against public or independent test data
Document implementation details so Product and Engineering can reproduce tests
Research country-specific identity systems, government eIDs, authoritative sources, documents, attributes, and approved access models
Translate business requests into technical and vendor-evaluation criteria
Identify privacy, consent, data-residency, retention, licensing, certification, and local-government constraints
Flag operational dependencies such as manual review, onboarding lead times, customer approvals, and compliance reassessment
Maintain structured provider coverage intelligence by country, document type, eID, authoritative source, and capability
Monitor document templates, vendor release notes, government identity programs, standards, API changes, and product announcements
Create periodic updates explaining changes, impact, and required action
Build research agents and automated workflows that monitor sources, detect changes, preserve citations, and produce reviewable summaries
Automate supported-document checks, vendor-coverage comparisons, document-template detection, and government digital-ID monitoring
Design human-verifiable research workflows
Create repeatable vendor scorecards covering technical, operational, regulatory, commercial, scalability, and maturity factors
Recommend whether 1Kosmos should integrate, partner, defer, or continue researching
Present findings to Product, Engineering, Security/Compliance, and stakeholders
Maintain a reusable research repository for roadmap planning, customer requirements, RFPs, and future evaluations

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong hands-on experience consuming third-party APIs and SDKs; ability to go from documentation to a working test without needing a full engineering team
Comfort with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, REST/JSON, OAuth or API-key authentication, Postman, curl, Git, and basic cloud tooling
Excellent technical research skills and ability to distinguish primary evidence, independent testing, vendor marketing claims, and conclusions
Experience translating ambiguous business questions into structured evaluation criteria and defensible recommendations
Strong written communication, with research concise enough for executives and detailed enough for engineers to reproduce
Experience presenting technical findings to Product, walking Engineering through API test results, and discussing regulatory constraints with Security or Compliance
High agency and comfort working independently amid changing priorities
Dependable collaboration overlap with the U.S. Eastern time zone
Experience in identity verification, KYC/KYB, fraud prevention, biometrics, digital identity, cybersecurity, fintech, payments, or trust and safety
Familiarity with government eID programs, mobile driver licenses, authoritative identity data, document verification, or identity-assurance standards
Experience evaluating biometric, liveness, presentation-attack, deepfake, or document-fraud technology
Experience researching international privacy, data-residency, consent, identity, or digital-government requirements
Experience building AI-assisted research agents, monitoring pipelines, web-scraping or change-detection workflows, or other research automation
Prior work in consulting, product management, solutions engineering, technical product research, or technical competitive intelligence