Mission Lane · 4 hours ago
Principal Data Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$183K/yr - $224K/yr
5+ years expMission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company focused on improving financial access for millions. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will innovate and enhance machine learning models to facilitate efficient decision-making and financial progress for customers.
CreditFinanceFinancial Services
No H1B
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
Qualification
Required
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 1+ years of experience in a related role
Has a BS / MS in a quantitative field and 5+ 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
Preferred
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
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
Unlimited paid time off
Monthly wellness stipend
Disability coverage
Life insurance
Remote-friendly work environment
Company
Mission Lane
Mission Lane is a consumer finance company dedicated to helping everyone have access to fair and clear credit. It is a sub-organization of LendUp.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$675MKey Investors
Oaktree Capital Management
2024-02-16Series Unknown
2022-06-15Series Unknown· $25M
2021-10-27Series Unknown· $150M
Leadership Team
Brandon Black
Chief Executive Officer
Semyon Fishman
Head of Debit Card Engineering
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