Senior AI/ML Scientist, Personalization & Real-Time Modeling

DailyPay; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DailyPay is seeking a Senior AI & ML Scientist to join our Data Science team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an AI & ML scientist who executes complex modeling work with excellence and is growing their strategic influence across product and business stakeholders.

You will build and maintain the models and decision systems that personalize the DailyPay product experience — from optimizing financial decisions for workers, to personalizing communications and user experiences,

Responsibilities

• Build, improve, and maintain ML models for personalizing the user experience including on-demand pay balance optimization, content personalization, and fraud controls.
• Build reliable data pipelines and features for model development, following team infrastructure standards. Identify gaps in data infrastructure along the way and advocate for solutions with engineering partners.
• Develop, evaluate, deploy, monitor, and improve both batch and real time models following established production standards.
• Stay current on AI/ML developments and apply sound judgment in algorithm selection and technique adoption by evaluating tradeoffs across modeling approaches and recommending the best tool for the problem.
• Write clean, well-documented, traceable, versioned, and reproducible code across all model development and pipeline work, following team standards for maintainability and auditability.
• Follow and contribute to data quality standards and validation practices; flag issues proactively and help improve team patterns.
• Partner with product and engineering on scoped problem areas, translating defined business questions into well-structured DS solutions. Bring senior DS leadership in early on ambiguous or high-stakes problem framing.
• Communicate model results and tradeoffs clearly to product and cross-functional partners, connecting technical outputs to business outcomes.

Job description

DailyPay is seeking a Senior AI & ML Scientist to join our Data Science team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an AI & ML scientist who executes complex modeling work with excellence and is growing their strategic influence across product and business stakeholders.

You will build and maintain the models and decision systems that personalize the DailyPay product experience — from optimizing financial decisions for workers, to personalizing communications and user experiences,