Full-Time Senior Data Scientist
Ocrolus is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Data Scientist. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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The data science team at Ocrolus builds high-quality, impactful analytics and machine-learning based products that empower lenders to make better credit, fraud, and operational risk decisions. Data scientists play a critical role in the full product development cycle and move fast to ideate, build, deploy, and maintain production quality models.
What you’ll do
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders to translate ambiguous business challenges into well-defined data science problems
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data science models, from data exploration and feature engineering to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in production
- Develop robust, scalable, and efficient models, thoughtfully balancing algorithmic complexity against interpretability, business needs, and delivery timelines
Examples of data science initiatives include:
- using NLP/LLMs to classify transactions into standardized categories
- training gradient boosting trees to predict loan default probability and loss-given-default based on transactional data
- building an entity resolution system to match financial documents across time with a specific borrower
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Math, Engineering)
- Full stack data-science experience: ideating, building, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining production ML models that solve product needs and perform with high levels of accuracy, stability, and coverage
- The ability to communicate and present complex technical topics and results to various audiences
- Passion for understanding the “why” of the problem and the impact of solutions on client outcomes
- Deep understanding of statistics, probability, and machine learning algorithms
- Strong software engineering and data engineering fundamentals
- Expert-level programming skills in Python and proficiency with core data science libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
- Excellent SQL skills and comfort working with large and complex data warehouses (Snowflake/Postgres)
- Experience with CI/CD, shell scripting, Git/version control, REST/GRPC APIs, and cloud infrastructure (AWS: S3, EKS, etc)
Bonus points
- Experience working with messy, real-world financial data (e.g., bank transaction streams, financial statements, credit reports)
- Portfolio of past data science accomplishments (including source code)