Model Risk Data Scientist

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another.

By building the future of identity verification in the United States and reinventing the currently clunky, ineffective, and expensive process, we believe strongly that the future will be 10x better.

We’ve had tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Already our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, beginning with financial services. In 2021, we raised a $70M Series B round, led by Craft Ventures to rapidly scale our best in class products. We’ve earned coverage and awards from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list consecutively since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even been a part of history -- we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives.

This is a remote, US-based role.
Responsibilities: 

• Build out our foundational processes for generating and surfacing model performance metrics, including crafting + calculating the metrics and building python rails.

• Primarily work with a Python ecosystem, using SQL, SageMaker, S3, Metabase and Git to support.

• Act as point of contact for Strategic Financial Partners, and manage their model governance needs as part of our larger governance strategy and generate model risk reports and metrics.

• Create automation to detect inconsistencies or issues with the production models that power our fraud detection products, such as data driven gap analysis to automation via anomaly detection or training challenger models to identify weaknesses.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field

• 3 years of work experience in a related technical field, or 5-7 years relevant applied academic experience

• Proven experience in data analysis, modeling, and performance evaluation

• Strong proficiency in Python, and specifically data analysis libraries (Pandas, Numpy), Data Visualization (Python matplotlib Plots, Excel Plots / BI tools), and SQL

• Ability to interpret and communicate complex data insights to both technical and business audiences

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills with a focus on actionable results

• Interest in developing deep domain expertise for model risk analysis and model governance work

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems

• Proven experience in assessing the quality, stability, performance and behavior of production grade ML models, ideally from the perspective of model governance, fair lending or economic risk is highly preferred

• Familiarity with fraud detection preferred

• Experience with GitHub

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

Technologies:

• Python, Pandas, Numpy, matplotlib, BI tools, SQL

Salary:

• $110,000/year - $140,000/year + equity + benefits

• Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents

• 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)

• Flexible paid time off

• Regular company-wide in-person events

• Home office stipend, and more!

• Follow Through

• Deep Understanding

• Whatever It Takes

• Do Something Smart