Sr. Data Scientist, Machine Learning (Fraud) - Remote

Overview

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.

In Short

• Lead efforts within the organization to drive the design, development, optimization, and productionization of ML-based fraud models
• Enable customers to have broader access to risky product features by designing a fraud system that balances precision of detection with customer experience and growth
• Work with stakeholders in the fraud organization to identify opportunities for driving business value with ML
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the engineering team to deploy models and monitor outcomes
• Guide and mentor junior machine learning scientists and engineers

Requirements

• 4+ years of expertise in developing ML industry applications for fraud or risk applications
• Demonstrated experience and/or interest in building fraud detection machine learning models
• Ph.D. or equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, or related field
• Strong bias for action and team player
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Preferred: Familiarity with Sagemaker, Spark, TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch

Benefits

• Work with an impressive team of Data pros
• Opportunity to solve interesting problems to propel the company’s growth
• Collegial work atmosphere