Principal AI Scientist, Risk & Credit Modeling (Remote)

Banco Plata, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Flexible work options

Healthcare coverage

Education budget

Wellness budget

Vacation days

Job summary

Plata Plata is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead the foundation model program end to end, delivering production-grade models that directly influence cost of risk, approval rates, and portfolio NPV across a fast-growing credit portfolio.

You will work with billions of transactions and behavioral events from 3M+ customers, driving model quality from research direction to production deployment in a high-tech fintech environment.

Qualifications

• Experience applying deep learning to sequential data with transformer architectures is preferred.
• Strong foundation in statistics and probability theory.
• Experience taking large models to production: distributed training and model serving.
• Ability to balance solution complexity with practical applicability.

Skills

Transformer models

Sequential modeling

Mathematical statistics

Probability theory

Production ML

Distributed training

Model serving

Communication skills

Education

Math/Physics/CS degree

Job description

Plata Plata is seeking a Principal AI Engineer to lead the foundation model program end to end, delivering production-grade models that directly influence cost of risk, approval rates, and portfolio NPV across a fast-growing credit portfolio.

You will work with billions of transactions and behavioral events from 3M+ customers, driving model quality from research direction to production deployment in a high-tech fintech environment.