Staff Data Scientist

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Engineering

Staff Data Scientist at SoFi in San Francisco, CA, focusing on developing and applying machine learning models to solve business problems, building data pipelines, and identifying business opportunities. Requires a Master's degree and 3 years of experience in AI/ML, NLP, Time Series Forecasting, ETL, and AWS.

What you'd actually do

  1. Identify high impact business opportunities to help members achieve their financial goals.
  2. Mentor and guide data scientists in the team by promoting best practices, strong technical decisions, coding standards, and thorough documentation.
  3. Develop and apply machine learning models to solve business problems.
  4. Evaluate and interpret the results of data analysis.
  5. Build strong relationships with stakeholders and present insights on a regular cadence communicating findings to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML)
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • ETL Pipelines
  • AWS (Sagemaker, S3, EMR)
  • Advanced clustering
  • Data Visualization
  • A/B testing
  • Collaboration with cross-functional partners
  • Leadership

What the JD emphasized

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Other signals

  • Develop and apply machine learning models to solve business problems
  • Build data pipelines to deploy production level datasets
  • Identify high impact business opportunities to help members achieve their financial goals