Clair is hiring a
Senior Data Scientist

Summary

The job is for a Senior/Staff Data Scientist at Clair, responsible for developing loan underwriting models. The role requires 8+ years of experience in data science and machine learning, with expertise in financial technology and modeling. The candidate will work onsite in the NYC metro area 3+ days a week.

Requirements

• 8+ years of work or educational experience in data science and machine learning
• Proven leadership of data science projects from conception to delivery
• Proven track record of delivering on products and/or practical research endeavors
• Experience publishing code to production-level repositories
• Experience in risk assessment and predictive modeling
• Experience with large transaction-based datasets
• Experience with Python is required, R is a plus

Responsibilities

• Create new algorithms and predictive models to assess risk and underwrite loans
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy models to a production environment
• Communicate about algorithms and their business value to technical and non-technical audiences
• Build supervised and unsupervised learning systems to glean insight from our wide variety of data sources
• Lead cross-discipline projects fostering collaboration between product, software engineering, data engineering, and data science teams
• Create prototypes to expose algorithms to stakeholders for gathering research feedback

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowflake or similar data warehouse systems is a plus
• Experience with AWS SageMaker, Lambda, and other AWS tooling is a plus
• Experience with spaCy, NLTK, or HuggingFace libraries is a plus
• Experience with Tensorflow, Torch, Keras or similar libraries is a plus
• Experience with a range of open-source and commercially available LLMs is a plus

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
• Fully-paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
• Work from home setup allowance
• Access to your earnings every day on Clair
• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance