Senior Data Scientist, Foundational Modeling

Tilt Finance; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

WFH office reimbursement

Competitive compensation

Generous equity

Global onsite visits

Job summary

Tilt Finance is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Methodologies group. You will build and test deep learning models on real financial data, advancing foundational modeling approaches to support credit decisioning and customer behavior analysis.

You will work with a small, senior team to take ideas from concept to working models, using agentic tools to accelerate experimentation and product integration. The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and high-impact results.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and training deep learning models.
• Experience with modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and transformer-based methods.
• Experience applying ML to real-world financial services problems (credit, lending, payments, or banking).
• Ability to translate experiments into measurable business outcomes.
• Excellent communication to explain technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build, train and evaluate deep learning models on Tilt's financial data.
• Ship models and components that plug into Tilt's ML pipelines to improve credit modeling and loss prediction.
• Own projects end to end from hypothesis to production use with guidance from leads.
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and product partners to operationalize results.
• Run representation learning experiments including pretraining and fine-tuning on real financial data.
• Share findings and help peers adopt new deep learning methods.

Skills

Deep learning

PyTorch

TensorFlow

LLMs

Clear communication

Financial services experience

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Tilt Finance is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Methodologies group. You will build and test deep learning models on real financial data, advancing foundational modeling approaches to support credit decisioning and customer behavior analysis.

You will work with a small, senior team to take ideas from concept to working models, using agentic tools to accelerate experimentation and product integration. The role emphasizes collaboration, learning, and high-impact results.