Principal Associate Data Scientist, Machine Learning

Discover Financial
Toronto
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 134,400 - 153,300 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 3+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Curiosity","Proactive","Creativity","Leadership","Communication"]

Build and deploy machine learning models that personalize and improve decision-making at scale, working with large, messy numerical and textual datasets. Write production-ready software for data extraction, cleaning, and investigation; create and optimize model development pipelines for rapid experimentation; and design experiments to optimize business strategies. Collaborate on model development, deployment, and inference while evaluating new data sources, methodologies, and technologies.

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Principal Associate Data Scientist, Machine Learning

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Job Summary

Build and deploy machine learning models that personalize and improve decision-making at scale, working with large, messy numerical and textual datasets. Write production-ready software for data extraction, cleaning, and investigation; create and optimize model development pipelines for rapid experimentation; and design experiments to optimize business strategies. Collaborate on model development, deployment, and inference while evaluating new data sources, methodologies, and technologies.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Write software to extract, clean, and investigate large, messy datasets of numerical and textual data.
  • •Build, deploy, and maintain machine learning models from development and validation through production deployment.
  • •Develop and optimize model development pipelines to enable rapid experimentation and optimization.
  • •Design and analyze experiments to optimize business strategies.
  • •Investigate the impact of new technologies, data sources, and methodologies to stay current in data science.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 134,400 - 153,300 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceTuition SubsidiesRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •At least 3 years of experience in open source programming languages for modeling (Python or R).
  • •At least 3 years of experience with version control system like GitHub.
  • •At least 3 years of experience with machine learning or predictive modeling (H2O, XGBoost, TensorFlow, etc.).
  • •At least 3 years of experience with SQL.
  • •Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field or Master’s Degree or PhD.
Experience:3+ yearsOpen sourceMachine learningPredictive modelingFinancial data
Education:Bachelor's in quantitative field
Skills:CuriosityProactiveCreativityLeadershipCommunication
Tech Stack:PythonRGitHubSQLH2OXGBoostTensorFlowAWSEC2S3LambdaRDSJenkinsCircleCI

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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