About this opportunity
Brigit lists this Senior Data Scientist opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Brigit is a holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future.
Role overview
As a Data Scientist on our team, you’ll be responsible for building, improving, and maintaining the key ML models that enable our services. The key problem spaces we focus on are:
Identifying the credit risk of customers so we can help more people in need when they need it
Identifying fraud early, so we can focus on customers who rely on us for support
Optimizing our transaction timing to prevent customers from over‑drawing their accounts
We have access to rich, structured data that we can use to derive insights and build complex models. In addition to supporting new use cases when needed, you will also have the opportunity to help us stand up best practices and collaborate across Data Science, Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams.
What you’ll be doing
Build, test, improve and roll out new models in a variety of problem spaces.
Analyze how our customer base is shifting as we grow and pinpoint areas we can improve.
Help our existing engineering and business teams achieve our cross‑functional goals.
What you have
5+ years of experience doing data science (modeling + analysis)
Advanced degree in data science, statistics, computer science, or related field.
Proven expertise in machine learning principles and techniques.
Experience in Python, using industry‑standard modeling toolkits like scikit‑learn, JupyterLab, pandas, matplotlib, statsmodels, etc.
Experience in writing complex SQL queries and the ability to combine multiple data sources.
Experience creating training data sets, training models, tuning hyperparameters, performing validation, running A/B tests in production, and owning performance and model monitoring.
Experience building classification and prediction models, testing them in a startup environment, and iterating to improve their performance.
Ability to work effectively and communicate ideas and code clearly in a cross‑functional team environment (Engineering, Product and Business teams).
Experience building end‑to‑end data science solutions to address business needs: from ideation to deployment & A/B testing.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to various audiences.
Who You Are
Passionate self‑starter who is always looking for ways to optimize, test, and improve.
Comfortable operating through ambiguity by asking questions and learning quickly.
Always willing to collaborate and help your colleagues do their best work.
Passionate about making a difference in people’s lives through your work.
Compensation
The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $175,000 - $200,000 with a 10% annual bonus opportunity. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible. The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.
Benefits & Team
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible PTO policy
401(k) plan
Paid parental leave
Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub for access to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and Headspace for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on‑demand health support
Monthly reimbursements for wifi and cell phone bills
Annual reimbursement for learning & development
Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future
High‑growth company
A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start‑up work environment with a highly talented team
Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breastfeeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
For information on our data privacy policies, see the Brigit California Personnel Privacy Policy. Brigit uses E‑Verify for employment authorization. See the E‑Verify and Department of Justice websites for more details.
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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