Senior Data Scientist - Fintech

Senior Data Scientist - Fintech

$170,000–$190,000 + bonus + benefits

Remote

About the Organization

Join a global financial services company delivering intelligent information and technology solutions to professionals in legal, tax, compliance, and corporate sectors. The team is part of the organization's innovation hub, focused on applying AI, LLM, and data science to create forward-looking tools.

The environment combines the best of both worlds: startup energy with enterprise support. Projects include building agentic systems to automate tax prep and document summarization for legal and financial workflows.

About the Role

This is a model building / development–focused role—ideal for someone with a strong foundation in applied NLP research and a passion for making machine learning work in the real world. You'll own experiments, iterate on PoCs, and help define how ML models are built for in production environments.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of data scientist (modeling) experience in applied research and production environments
• PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics or similar highly preferred
• Experience with LLMs and agents
• Background in: NLP: Named Entity Recognition / NER, information extraction, and information retrieval
• Cloud environments (provider-agnostic), AWS or GCP a plus
• Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, BERT, RAG experience preferred
• Publication and patent history a plus
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with non-technical stakeholders
• Independent problem-solver with a proactive mindset

Preferred Experience

• Technical leadership on NLP products
• Experience delivering LLM-based solutions
• Familiarity with all stages of the AI product lifecycle
• Startup or fast-paced innovation environment experience

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your résumé to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.

KEYWORDS

Machine Learning | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | LLMs | Large Language Models | Artificial Intelligence | Applied Research | Production | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Publications | Patents | PyTorch | Python | Deployment | Hugging Face | RAG | Retreival Augmented Generation | Agents | NLP | Natural Language Processing | Chatbots | NER | Information Extraction | Information Retrieval