Best Egg is hiring a
Lead Data Scientist - AI/ML Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Data Scientist at Best Egg, a financial confidence platform that provides flexible solutions to real-life challenges. The role involves developing AI/ML solutions, optimizing business tasks, and leading other team members. The ideal candidate should have a quantitative degree, 4+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, and proficiency in Python/R, SQL, and various AWS services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Computer Science/Engineering, Data Science or other quantitative major. Masters or PhD is preferred
• 4+ years of work experience in AI/ML engineering
• Experience with building and deploying AI/ML stacks in cloud production environments/containers in ECS/EKS – including data pipeline, CDK/SDK, Cloudformation/Terraform, and familiar with AWS services and various ML/Deep Learning tools
• Intermediate to advanced experience in AI/ML modeling in Python/R
• Strong SQL background
• Experience with dev tools – Git, JIRA, etc
• Ability to work effectively independently and as a team member
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate technical concepts to a non-technical audience

Responsibilities

• Partner with various business units to develop AI/ML solutions aimed at optimizing and automating business tasks
• Develop and maintain loss forecasting models and enhance & automate current processes and pipelines
• Spearhead the development of AI tools for Best Egg
• Build end-to-end AI/ML pipelines including data ingestion, extraction, feature engineering, model training and inference, performance evaluation and implementation

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the financial industry and loss forecasting related tool development

Benefits

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!