Principal Data Scientist, Operations

About the Role

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will innovate and improve the machine learning models we rely on to make billions of dollars of efficient and accurate decisions and to enable financial progress for our customers.

As a Principal Data Scientist, you’ll:

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to solve practical problems and help our business and customers reach their financial goals.
• Partner with business leaders and technical experts across the company to develop new data sources, improve our modeling methodology, and apply models with sound risk management.

You are a person who:

• Has created, deployed, and managed supervised learning models in production systems for vital applications and enjoys being a technical mentor.
• Has a PhD in a quantitative field and 3+ years of experience in a related role, or a BS / MS in a quantitative field and 7+ years of experience in a related role.
• Shares best practices for software engineering and can help smart, experienced data scientists with complex technical problems - especially operationalizing and evaluating models for real-world applications.
• Considers themself a generalist data scientist more motivated by practical solutions than theoretical elegance.
• Practices solid fundamentals with software engineering (test-driven development, code review, refactoring) and the PyData stack (numpy, scikit-learn, pandas, etc.).
• Is interested in a wide range of ML solutions, including established tools (e.g. Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLFlow), emerging tools (like Chalk, BentoML, or DVC), and developing in-house tools.

You get bonus points for:

• Experience building predictive models end to end.
• Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech.
• Interest in developing ways to train, interpret, and deploy neural network architectures for time series classification tasks.

About Mission Lane:

Founded in December 2018, Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company based in the U.S., with headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. It all started with a realization: nearly fifty percent of the adult population in the U.S. doesn’t have access to a clear line of credit. Most traditional credit card companies either overlook or overcharge this group because they have less-than-perfect credit scores or no scores at all. We decided this just wouldn’t do.

In partnership with our sponsor banks, we offer credit cards under the Mission Lane brand name, with better, clearer terms, and a more refined customer experience than the alternatives available to people working hard to improve their credit. To date, over four million consumers have chosen Mission Lane, earning high customer ratings on Credit Karma for its market segment and industry leading Net Promoter scores.

Mission Lane has cumulatively raised over $600 million of equity from leading investors, including Invus Opportunities, QED Investors, LL Funds, funds affiliated with Oaktree Capital Management, and other leading investors.