Principal Data Scientist, Operations
About the Role
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will innovate and improve the machine learning models we rely on to make billions of dollars of efficient and accurate decisions and to enable financial progress for our customers.
As a Principal Data Scientist, you’ll:
Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to solve practical problems and help our business and customers reach their financial goals. You’ll partner with business leaders and technical experts across the company to develop new data sources, improve our modeling methodology, and apply models with sound risk management.
You are a person who:
Has created, deployed, and managed supervised learning models in production systems for vital applications and enjoys being a technical mentor
Has a PhD in a quantitative field and 3+ years of experience in a related role
Has a BS / MS in a quantitative field and 7+ years of experience in a related role
You share best practices for software engineering and can help smart, experienced data scientists with complex technical problems - especially operationalizing and evaluating models for real-world applications
Considers themself a generalist data scientist more motivated by practical solutions than theoretical elegance
Practices solid fundamentals with software engineering (test-driven development, code review, refactoring) and the PyData stack (numpy, scikit-learn, pandas, etc.)
Is interested in a wide range of ML solutions, including established tools (e.g. Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLFlow), emerging tools (like Chalk, BentoML, or DVC), and developing in-house tools
You get bonus points for:
Experience building predictive models end to end
Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech
Interest in developing ways to train, interpret, and deploy neural network architectures for time series classification tasks
We’re offering:
We’re committed to ensuring our team members have balance in their lives. Our comprehensive benefits package provides the support you need to thrive at work and at home.
Work: An engaging culture with access to training programs and advancement opportunities
Life: Full health, dental, and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Account (for medical and childcare expenses), paid parental leave, and a 401k Company Match
Balance: Generous PTO, flexible schedules, a Calm App subscription, and more
Compensation:
Annual full-time starting base salary range: $185,000 - $204,000
This role is eligible for additional compensation in the forms of participation in our annual incentive and equity programs.