Senior Data Scientist, AI-Driven Fintech (Remote)

Surge; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with employer match

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Surge is seeking a senior individual contributor to embed within product development. You will transform proprietary mortgage data into scores, recommendations, and patterns used in customers’ daily workflows.

You will work with engineering to ship features that appear in the product, using AI daily, while validating outputs with human-in-the-loop governance and transparent decision documentation.

Qualifications

• Graduate training ideal in economics, econometrics, statistics, data science, or related field.
• Evidence of ability ranks higher than degree; credential gatekeeping is not required.
• Comfort with data prep, modeling, validation, and shipping to production.

Responsibilities

• Build statistical, econometric, and ML models for customer-facing capabilities.
• Design scores, indicators, and decision aids with audit-ready rigor.
• Move between exploratory analysis and production deployment.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams on what to measure and surface.

Skills

Data science

Modeling

Validation

Shipping

Communication

Education

PhD or equivalent in quantitative field

Tools

Snowflake

Python data stack

Claude Code

Salesforce

AWS S3

Google Workspace

Job description

Surge is seeking a senior individual contributor to embed within product development. You will transform proprietary mortgage data into scores, recommendations, and patterns used in customers’ daily workflows.

You will work with engineering to ship features that appear in the product, using AI daily, while validating outputs with human-in-the-loop governance and transparent decision documentation.