Lead Data Scientist México

Nubank; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 556,000 - 927,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading digital bank in Mexico is seeking a motivated Data Scientist to develop innovative machine learning solutions for risk models. The ideal candidate will have strong coding skills in Python or Scala, with experience in machine learning tools like Scikit-learn. This hybrid role offers competitive benefits including health insurance and equity options.

Servicios

Chance of earning equity

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

Health and life insurance

Mental health assistance program

Learning platform of courses

Language learning program

Gym partnership

Formación

• Strong coding skills in Python or Scala.
• Ability to design experiments effectively.
• Good understanding of model deployment pipelines.

Responsabilidades

• Translate business challenges into machine learning solutions.
• Integrate external data sources into models.
• Maintain technical excellence within the team.
• Contribute to the local technical culture.

Conocimientos

Strong coding skills Python/Scala

Experimental design skills

Effective communication with business and engineering

Understanding of model development and deployment

Experience with machine learning tools

Data handling skills (Spark Dataframes or SQL)

English language proficiency

Herramientas

Scikit-learn

MlLib

Descripción del empleo

Overview

Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

About the role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Data Scientist to join our team. This role focuses on applying innovative machine learning methodologies to our risk model and developing causal machine learning approaches for the initial line assignment workflow.

Responsibilities

• Translate business challenges into specific and well-designed machine learning solutions that meet business requirements;
• Integrate and leverage external data sources to feed our models;
• Ensure the team maintains a high level of technical excellence;
• Contribute to a technical culture in the local team;
• Bring expertise to the team to help design projects across the many areas involved in building machine learning products (training, deployment, data consistency, monitoring, governance, etc.)

Qualifications

• Strong coding skills Python/Scala or equivalent languages;
• Experimental design skills;
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with business and engineering;
• Good understanding of model development and deployment pipeline;
• Experience with machine learning tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn, MlLib and etc;
• Nice data handling skills, Spark Dataframes, or SQL proficiency is a plus;
• English language proficiency.

Local Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Health and life insurance
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Gym partnership

Our Nu Way of Working

Our work model is hybrid and has cycles that can be from two to three months according to the business of expertise. For every eight or twelve weeks of remote work, one will be at the office. Check more information here.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nu, we want to be sure that we\'re building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That\'s why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.