Staff Data Scientist, Credit Analytics - Hybrid/Remote

Self; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity stock options

Relocation bonus to move to Austin

Hybrid work arrangement

Education reimbursement program

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Self Financial is seeking a Staff Data Scientist in Austin to build, productionize, and monitor predictive models that drive credit and lending decisions. You will collaborate with Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Product to translate business questions into robust models, delivering measurable value and clear explanations.

You will mentor teammates, establish technical standards, and work in a hybrid or remote setup in Austin. 8+ years of experience and strong communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional data scientist experience.
• Strong Python skills and a track record of building predictive models.
• Demonstrated statistical rigor with measurable impact.
• Ability to quantify business impact in dollars and percentages.
• Experience taking models from development to production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and validate predictive models in Python for credit and lending decisions.
• Partner with engineering to deploy models into the decisioning engine and monitor post-launch.
• Analyze data to understand model behavior and ensure validity.
• Quantify and communicate business impact of your work with stakeholder teams.
• Collaborate with Risk, Finance, Product, and other stakeholders to translate questions into modeling problems.
• Evaluate data vendors and tools used by the team.
• Set technical standards and mentor other analysts and data scientists.

Skills

Python

Predictive modeling

Statistical rigor

Business impact

Model deployment

Communication

Job description

Self Financial is seeking a Staff Data Scientist in Austin to build, productionize, and monitor predictive models that drive credit and lending decisions. You will collaborate with Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Product to translate business questions into robust models, delivering measurable value and clear explanations.

You will mentor teammates, establish technical standards, and work in a hybrid or remote setup in Austin. 8+ years of experience and strong communication skills are essential.