Staff Data Scientist (Remote) at Arta Finance

The Staff Data Scientist will be responsible for the entire machine learning model development process, from conception with stakeholders to creation of model pipelines, technical development, and deployment. They will partner with credit, product, and finance teams to make business decisions, grow the user base, and increase retention through machine learning and analytics. Responsibilities include building machine learning models with large-scale datasets to address business priorities, designing and influencing strategies on underwriting, marketing, fraud, and customer experience, and working closely with the engineering team to implement models in production. Additionally, they will collaborate effectively with operations and product to ensure work aligns with broader strategy and business context, and develop data standards and analytics pipelines for current and future analysis. This role specifically involves creating and improving credit risk models and building ML-based paycheck detection algorithms to decrease loss rates and increase approval rates.