Job Openings Data Scientist

About the job Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist you’ll be part of a team that is working on cutting edge machine learning models. You will work side by side with Analysts and Machine Learning Engineers and take full ownership of your work – from the initial idea-generation phase to the implementation of the final product. Our ideal candidate is result-focused, innovative, has a solid quantitative background and a good business understanding.

About the role:

  • Working in a multi-disciplined team where you’ll take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine learning models.

  • Prototyping diverse machine learning models, from credit scoring to recommendation engine.

  • Researching & Development on how to improve our models, by using our vast amount and unique set of data.

  • Actively contribute to taking Data Science at FinAccel to the next level.


About you:

  • Minimum 2 years of relevant work experience.

  • Masters, PhD or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (i.e). Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence).

  • Capable to build robust end-to-end predictive models using the latest Machine Learning techniques and methodologies.

  • Proficiency in Python or R.

  • Exposure to RDBMS (i.e. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and No-SQL platforms (i.e. S3).

  • Excellent English communication skills.


Bonus points (optional) for:

  • Experience with alternate data to evaluate credit risk.

  • Experience in building end-to-end Deep Learning and/or NLP models.