Social Finance - Seattle, WA
posted 4 months ago
We are seeking a Principal Data Scientist with very strong engineering skills (or a software engineer with deep expertise in machine learning) to drive SoFi's technical capabilities in ML and AI across multiple teams. In this role, you will report directly to the VP of Data and accomplish high-impact work across multiple teams, divisions, and organizations. Beyond direct impact on ML and AI products, your responsibility will include mentorship, leadership in shaping standards for technical design and execution, hiring practices, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate is very strong on implementation and methods and equally motivated to develop strategies and plans. You are comfortable making opinionated decisions and very often those decisions prove to be useful. You will work closely with engineering, product, data science, executive teams, and more to drive vision, strategy, and execution. In this role, you will collaborate with multiple teams to build ML / AI products to bring value to our members. You will have opportunities to do significant hands-on development work on ML / AI systems. You will serve as the tech lead and architect for ML and AI across multiple business units and drive technical standards company-wide. You will advocate for continually-improving practices and drive inspiring standards for hiring, coding, and collaboration. Additionally, you will develop, apply, and socialize impactful technology, engineering principles, and concepts, while providing technical mentorship to data scientists and continually improving our data-driven culture.