Data Scientist
Self Financial, Austin, TX +2
The role
You’ll help build the models that drive our credit and lending decisions, and learn how they get from a notebook into production. This is an entry-level role on a small team, so you’ll get real responsibility early and work closely with experienced data scientists and engineers. We care less about “here’s the model and here’s what it does” and more about what it changed for the business, the context behind it, and how clearly you explain it.
What you will do
- Build, test, and validate predictive models in Python under the guidance of senior data scientists
- Support the deployment of models into our decisioning engine and help monitor them after launch
- Dig into the data to understand why a model behaves the way it does, and keep asking questions until the answer holds up
- Help measure and communicate the business impact of your work
- Work with Risk, Finance, Product, and other stakeholders to understand business questions and turn them into analyses
- Learn the data vendors and tools we use and help evaluate them