Staff Data Scientist, ML (Credit Risk)
Robinhood helps users invest in stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies through commission-free trading with no minimum account requirements.
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About Robinhood
Robinhood helps retail investors access financial markets through commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and cryptocurrencies. With it, users can invest with no account minimums, earn rewards through retirement accounts with matching contributions, and access advanced trading tools. Robinhood democratizes investing by making financial markets accessible to everyone, not just wealthy investors.
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About the Role
You will build credit risk models to better serve customers and enable responsible lending decisions. These models are central to lending decisions and will drive approval and decline, line assignment at origination, and future credit limit increases. You will leverage traditional and non traditional data sources to build highly predictive risk models. You will own the full lifecycle of model development from data prep and model building to deployment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data science and credit modeling
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and modeling
- Experience designing experiments and interpreting results to guide product decisions
- Domain knowledge in traditional credit data; experience with non traditional credit data is a plus
- Clear communication with both technical and non technical partners
Responsibilities
- Build credit risk models for customer acquisitions and management
- Collaborate with credit analysts and product managers to understand the business problem and deliver appropriate models
- Create rich datasets using traditional and non traditional data sources and develop powerful features
- Deploy, maintain and monitor models in production
- Communicate results and findings to senior stakeholders in credit product and engineering
Benefits
- Challenging high impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Top Tier benefits including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
- Lifestyle wallet a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
