Data Scientist

Vroom is the parent company of two industry standouts: UACC, a leading automotive finance company, and CarStory, a trailblazer in AI-powered automotive analytics.

We’re building the future of auto finance and retail intelligence - backed by smart teams, modern tech, and a culture that values growth and innovation. If you’re ready to work on high-impact problems in a focused and collaborative environment, let’s talk.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to find opportunities, understand requirements, and translate those requirements into mathematical models.
• Own end-to-end data workflows and develop deep domain expertise on the underlying actors and behaviors manifested through data
• Validate and maintain predictive statistical models on vehicle valuation and customer conversion throughout multiple points in a loan journey
• Acquire, organize and leverage insights derived from that data
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and other data scientists
• Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
• Train, test, track, productionize, and improve models

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science
• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience with gathering data, cleaning data, visualizing data, and modeling data.
• Experience with decision trees, segmentation, neural networks (bonus), feature engineering
• Experience with working with stakeholders to identify situations where a mathematical model would be appropriate, gathering data for training the model, training the model, testing the model, and preparing the model for production use
• Experience with a machine learning platform like TensorFlow or Pytorch
• Python / R
• SQL
• AWS
• Sagemaker
• Spark
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Time series and sequence modeling

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 25 days of paid vacation
• Paid home and mobile internet
• 100% paid sick leave for up to 30 days a year
• Equipment for the Home Office
• English language classes
• Virtual and real team gatherings and activities
• Sports activities

If you’re a passionate learner and you are excited to work on our tech stack, feel free to send your resume to career@vast.com, we’ll be glad to talk to you.