Alt · 12 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist- Pricing & Underwriting
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expAlt is unlocking the value of alternative assets, starting with the $5 B trading-card market. They are seeking a Pricing Data Scientist who will research, design, and validate pricing models for millions of alternative assets in real-time, collaborating with various teams to enhance their pricing model and ensure its effectiveness.
FinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechLendingMarketplace
Responsibilities
Research, develop, and ship sophisticated pricing models (e.g. Tree-based, Gradient-based, Deep Learning, ensemble methods) to improve valuation accuracy for high-value assets
Identify new data signals — emanating from data such as auction results to social sentiment — and validate their predictive power through rigorous backtesting and experimentation
Partner with the Product Engineering team to refine our Risk & Underwriting models, balancing the goal of maximizing cash advances with the need to maintain a balanced lending portfolio
Collaborate with the Expert Pricing team and domain experts to encode market nuances into automated features and inferences, ensuring our models respect the qualitative factors collectors care about
Define, monitor, and lift model performance metrics and communicate the "why" behind price coverage, movements, and freshness toward becoming the ultimate liquidity platform
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in Data Science, with a focus on feature engineering and algorithm/model-building in the pricing, financial modeling, or marketplace dynamics domains
Expert-level proficiency in SQL, Python, and populate Python libraries (Pandas, Scikit-Learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch/Tensorflow)
Statistical rigor and deep understanding of experimental design, backtesting methodologies, and dealing with 'noisy' or sparse data environments
Collaborative experience working in a sprint-based environment alongside Data and ML Engineers; you understand enough about model hand-offs and quality code to ensure your models are efficient and readily 'production-capable'
Proficient in developing in cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and familiarity with ML Ops infrastructure (e.g. MLFlow, workflow and container orchestration, deployment and telemetry patterns)
Preferred
Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or Computer Science
Benefits
$100/month work-from-home stipend
$200/month wellness stipend
WeWork office stipend
401(k) retirement benefits
Flexible vacation policy
Generous paid parental leave
Competitive healthcare benefits, including HSA, for you and your dependent(s)
Company
Alt
Alt is an online marketplace that enables users to buy, sell, and vault authenticated trading cards.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$146.01MKey Investors
Trinity CapitalSpearheadSeven Seven Six
2025-07-18Debt Financing· $40M
2023-01-01Series Unknown
2021-11-08Series B· $75M
Leadership Team
Leore Avidar
Founder and CEO
Recent News
2025-11-14
2025-07-19
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