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SentiLinkSentiLinkAustin, TX

Senior Data Scientist, Full Stack

Senior Data Scientist builds fraud detection models and financial risk products, handling full lifecycle from data acquisition to production code. Requires 4+ years experience (or advanced degree), strong ML/stats skills, and production coding ability.

180k – 230k
Remote4+ YOEData Science

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain SentiLink’s fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring.
  • Build foundational modeling to drive SentiLink’s expanding suite of Fraud and Financial Risk products.
  • Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification.
  • Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources and inventive feature engineering.
  • Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision making by our partners.
  • Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts.
  • Work with engineering, risk operations, and data acquisitions to access necessary data, maintain data quality, and support data access

Requirements

  • 4+ years relevant work experience & relevant PhD or 6+ years & relevant Masters
  • Proven track record of solving complex / high profile business problems with DS / ML solutions
  • Experience in communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders
  • Very strong in “end to end” DS development: Planning, fleshing out success criteria / metrics, getting buy-in, developing the solution, delivering the solution (prod / deck / strategy doc / etc)
  • Strong practical ML / Stats knowledge, i.e. can easily employ the suite of standard ML / stats tools to quickly scope out solutions, and double down where needed. Experience with SOTA ML solutions is a plus
  • Interest in developing deep domain expertise for product-focused work: a background in fraud is not required, but willingness to learn is
  • Experience writing production code and tests
  • Detail oriented and thoughtful - someone we can rely on to make business-changing decisions
  • Bonus for familiarity with: identity solutions, fintech, or adjacent industries
  • Experience working at a startup strongly preferred
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems.

Salary Range

$180,000/year - $230,000/year + equity + benefits

Skills

PythonPostgresAWSEC2S3RdsRedshiftMachine LearningFraud DetectionFeature Engineering

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