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Senior Data Scientist - Flex Pay

San FranciscoFull-time$100k2026-10-01 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United States

Core

Build predictive risk models, optimize offers and pricing, and extract insights to drive product development, risk mitigation, and customer strategy for a buy now pay later (BNPL) platform.

Role type

Senior IC data scientist (fintech/risk)

Builds

Credit and fraud policy simulators, statistical models, and machine learning algorithms

Domain

Fintech / Credit Risk / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Statistics, Machine Learning, Python, SQL, Model Validation, Data Analysis, Cross-functional Collaboration

Preferred skills

Random Forest, Gradient Boosted Trees, Tableau, Power BI, PySpark, AI tools (Claude), Financial services concepts (credit scoring, portfolio risk, CLV)

Technologies

Python (Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn), SQL, PySpark, Tableau, Power BI, Claude

Responsibilities

Build and maintain credit and fraud policy simulators; Build and deploy statistical models and ML algorithms for credit risk, fraud detection, pricing, and marketing; Validate models to identify performance factors; Analyze large structured and unstructured datasets; Research new tools and techniques; Collaborate with risk, marketing, product, and engineering teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC