Forecasting Data Scientist — Financial Time Series

VSolvit, LLC.; Norco (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

VSolvit LLC in Norco, CA is seeking a Data Scientist II focused on financial time series forecasting. You will build, validate, and maintain multi-variable models to project financial data and agency expenditures over multi-year horizons.

The role emphasizes rigorous data pipelines, model validation, feature engineering, and clear communication of results to leadership. US citizenship and ability to obtain a clearance are preferred per basic qualifications.

Qualifications

• Requires strong mathematical foundation and experience in predictive modeling.
• Experience building and validating forecasting models with time series methods.
• Ability to design data pipelines and transform raw datasets for modeling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain advanced single- and multi-variable forecasting models (ARIMA, Prophet, regression, exponential smoothing, tree-based).
• Build modular Python scripts and pipelines to extract, clean, join, validate, and transform financial data.
• Design backtesting and time-based validation, and implement model-monitoring workflows.
• Engineer quantitative features from historical pricing and economic indicators to support forecasting.
• Evaluate forecast performance using RMSE, MAE, MAPE, bias, and prediction intervals; guard against data leakage.
• Document model assumptions, data dependencies, validation results, and recommended uses of outputs.
• Translate modeling results into clear reports and leadership briefings.
• Provide technical guidance and code reviews to junior staff.
• Explore new forecasting approaches to improve workflows.
• Maintain compliance with security and data-handling policies.

Skills

Time series forecasting

Statistical modeling

Python scripting

Data pipelines

Model validation

Feature engineering

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics/Statistics/CS/Data Science

Master’s or Ph.D. in related field (optional substitution)

Tools

Python

SQL

Pandas

scikit-learn

Job description

VSolvit LLC in Norco, CA is seeking a Data Scientist II focused on financial time series forecasting. You will build, validate, and maintain multi-variable models to project financial data and agency expenditures over multi-year horizons.

The role emphasizes rigorous data pipelines, model validation, feature engineering, and clear communication of results to leadership. US citizenship and ability to obtain a clearance are preferred per basic qualifications.