CareerPlan

AI Data Scientist

Washington, District of Columbia, USFull-time$90k–$152k2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Design and deliver advanced applied AI, machine learning, and generative AI solutions for complex fintech and payments use cases including fraud, risk, forecasting, and payment optimization.

Role type

Senior IC AI Data Scientist (Generative AI & ML)

Builds

Production-grade AI/ML pipelines, generative and agentic AI solutions, and reusable AI capabilities for financial services.

Domain

Fintech, Payments, Financial Services

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, SQL, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Spark, LLM development, RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, agent orchestration, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Databricks/Snowflake), MLOps, data engineering, statistical modeling, anomaly detection, model validation

Preferred skills

Card payments/acquiring/issuing experience, LoRA/QLoRA/distillation, mentorship, vector/hybrid retrieval, MLflow, automated evaluation frameworks, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK

Technologies

Azure, AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost, Spark, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI Agents SDK, MLflow

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML solutions; own the end-to-end data science lifecycle; apply advanced analytics to payment use cases; partner with cross-functional teams; develop scalable AI/ML pipelines; create high-quality training and synthetic datasets; build generative and agentic AI solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC