Staff Data Scientist, ML (Credit Risk)
Robinhood· Money Growth Marketing - Data Science Division
Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Washington, DC)$217k - $255kfull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Staff Data Scientist role focused on building credit risk models to support customer acquisitions, credit decisions, and management, with end-to-end model lifecycle ownership and in-person work in Menlo Park, CA or Washington, DC.
Responsibilities
- Build credit risk models for customer acquisitions (credit approval and credit limit assignment) and customer management
- Collaborate with credit analysts and product managers to understand the business problem and deliver appropriate models to solve them
- Create rich datasets leveraging both traditional and non-traditional data sources. Work on innovative tools to generate powerful features that boost models
- Deploy, maintain and monitor models in production
- Communicate with senior stakeholders in credit, product and engineering to deliver key results and findings
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in data science and credit modeling
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and modeling
- Experience designing experiments and interpreting results to guide product decisions
- Domain knowledge and expertise in traditional credit data. Experience with non traditional credit data (such as cash flow) is a plus
- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical partners
Skills
Required:SQLPythonExperiment designCredit data domain knowledge
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
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