Lead Data Scientist - Production ML & Generative AI

FICO; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Competitive compensation

Professional learning opportunities

Work-life balance

Employee resource groups

Social events

Job summary

FICO is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to build and run ML and Generative AI solutions for consumer applications. You will construct data pipelines, develop models, deploy them to AWS, monitor performance, and retrain as needed. You will also set ML engineering best practices and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes production-quality data engineering, experimentation, and collaboration with product, marketing, and InfoSec to ensure secure, compliant data handling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or related field.
• Strong Python for data engineering and ML (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, PySpark).
• Experience building data pipelines and processing large datasets with Spark/Redshift.
• Hands-on experience with ML frameworks (XGBoost, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience operationalizing ML models (deployment, monitoring, retraining, CI/CD).
• Experience with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Bedrock).
• Experience with LLMs (Claude, OpenAI GPT) and Generative AI production use.
• Knowledge of statistics, experimental design, hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python data pipelines ingesting, cleaning, transforming large datasets.
• Develop ML models (propensity, churn, segmentation, forecasting) from framing to evaluation.
• Deploy models to production in AWS with monitoring and retraining.
• Design, evaluate, and improve LLM prompts; integrate Generative AI into apps.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and mentor engineers/analysts.
• Collaborate with product/marketing to measure business impact via experiments.
• Ensure secure, compliant handling of sensitive consumer data.

Skills

Python for data engineering

Pandas/NumPy

scikit-learn

PySpark

SQL

AWS

CI/CD

Docker

LLMs

Prompt design

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Data Science/Statistics

Tools

Spark

Redshift

SageMaker

MLflow

Airflow/Step Functions

Job description

FICO is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to build and run ML and Generative AI solutions for consumer applications. You will construct data pipelines, develop models, deploy them to AWS, monitor performance, and retrain as needed. You will also set ML engineering best practices and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes production-quality data engineering, experimentation, and collaboration with product, marketing, and InfoSec to ensure secure, compliant data handling.