Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company based in the U.S., focused on providing better credit options for consumers with less-than-perfect credit scores. The Principal Data Scientist will innovate and improve machine learning models to support financial progress for customers, collaborating with business leaders and technical experts to develop new data sources and improve modeling methodologies.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to solve practical problems and help our business and customers reach their financial goals
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Participation in our annual incentive program
- Equity are dependent on role
- Unlimited paid time off
- 401(k) match
- A monthly wellness stipend
- Health/ dental/ vision insurance options
- Disability coverage
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible spending account (for childcare and healthcare)
- Life insurance
- A remote-friendly work environment
- Access to training programs and advancement opportunities
- Full health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible Spending Account (for medical and childcare expenses)
- Paid parental leave
- 401k Company Match
- Generous PTO
- Flexible schedules
- A Calm App subscription
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