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 individuals with less-than-perfect credit scores. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will innovate and improve machine learning models to enable financial progress for customers.
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
- An engaging culture with 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
- Participation in our annual incentive program and equity are available for this 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
Company Overview