CareerPlan

Associate Data Scientist

Palo AltoFull-time$100k2026-09-30 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United States

Core

Build Machine Learning solutions and ETL pipelines to uncover risk signals (fraud, money laundering) for financial institutions using unstructured data.

Role type

Associate Data Scientist (IC)

Builds

Production ML models and data pipelines for financial crime risk management

Domain

Financial services / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Fraud Detection

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Statistics, Machine Learning, Python, SQL, PySpark, Scala, ETL pipeline design, supervised/unsupervised learning, NLP

Preferred skills

Applied NLP (topic modeling, text classification, word embeddings, named entity extraction), Large Language Models (LLMs)

Technologies

Python, Scala, Java, R, SQL, Spark, PySpark, LLMs

Responsibilities

Prototype and build complex ML solutions, design and maintain ETL pipelines, train ML models, implement solutions in production codebase, leverage LLMs for data tasks, participate in code reviews

Seniority

Associate, early-career IC