Remote Applied Scientist, Growth ML

Neura Market; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity grants

401k

Health coverage

Job summary

Upstart, a leading AI lending marketplace, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance models and expand impact across marketing channels. You will work across business analytics, ML research, experimentation, and production-ready modeling, partnering within Machine Learning and with Growth and Marketing Platform Engineering.

You’ll analyze historical model and campaign performance, design experiments, and build scalable data pipelines to enable rapid, rigorous evaluation and deployment of new

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Operations Research or a related field.
• Experience applying statistical and machine learning methods to modeling or data science problems.
• Experience using Python for data analysis, data preparation, and machine learning model development.
• Experience with causal inference and experimental design, including statistically rigorous evaluation of model or experiment performance

Responsibilities

• Analyze historical model and campaign performance to identify opportunities to improve model effectiveness and marketing outcomes.
• Develop and evaluate machine learning models, including researching new features and model architectures, to improve prospect selection and support new marketing use cases.
• Design statistically rigorous experiments and model evaluations to measure causal impact, optimize campaign outcomes, and inform decisions.
• Navigate complex, messy datasets and build reusable data pipelines, metrics, and analytical approaches that enable efficient model development and analysis.
• Partner with Machine Learning, Growth, and Marketing Platform Engineering teams to translate business problems into research agendas, intermediate milestones, and production-ready solutions.
• Expand machine learning capabilities beyond direct mail into lifecycle, email, digital, and other emerging marketing channels.

Skills

Statistical methods

Machine learning

Python

Causal inference

Education

Master's degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Economics/OR

Job description

Upstart, a leading AI lending marketplace, seeks an Applied Scientist to advance models and expand impact across marketing channels. You will work across business analytics, ML research, experimentation, and production-ready modeling, partnering within Machine Learning and with Growth and Marketing Platform Engineering.

You’ll analyze historical model and campaign performance, design experiments, and build scalable data pipelines to enable rapid, rigorous evaluation and deployment of new