Staff Data Scientist - Credit Analytics & Production ML

selffinancial; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Relocation bonus to Austin

Competitive health benefits

Flexible vacation

Performance-based bonus

Stock options

Job summary

Self Financial in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to design, deploy, and improve predictive models that inform credit and lending decisions. You will collaborate with engineering to put models into production within our decisioning engine and explain the business impact in clear terms to stakeholders.

As a small, high-growth fintech, the role requires wearing multiple hats, mentoring teammates, and driving measurable improvements in dollars and percentages.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional data scientist experience.
• Strong Python skills and a record of building predictive models.
• Statistical rigor demonstrated with at least one achievement.
• Business impact you can quantify with dollars and percentages.
• Curiosity and depth in understanding context beyond a single model.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• 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.
• Investigate model behavior and verify findings with robust evidence.
• Quantify and communicate the business impact of your work in dollars and percentages.
• 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 programming

Predictive modeling

Statistical rigor

Business impact

Communication

Productionizing models

Mentoring

Job description

Self Financial in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Data Scientist to design, deploy, and improve predictive models that inform credit and lending decisions. You will collaborate with engineering to put models into production within our decisioning engine and explain the business impact in clear terms to stakeholders.

As a small, high-growth fintech, the role requires wearing multiple hats, mentoring teammates, and driving measurable improvements in dollars and percentages.