Senior Data Scientist

Kredivo; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 1,000,000,000 - 1,800,000,000; Full time

Job description

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 across different countries. Take full ownership of turning discoveries and ideas into machine learning models.
• Prototyping diverse machine learning models, from credit risk to growth related models.
• 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 Kredivo to the next level.

About you:

• Minimum >5 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 of building 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.

• NON NEGOTIABLE - Deep risk domain expertise, building credit risk modelling (3-4yrs)
• Independent and good communication skills
• Strong in statistics and math
• Good to have: Experience working in finance institute