Data Scientist, Underwriting
Parafin
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $190,000 - $230,000 per year
About the role
- Design, train, and deploy production underwriting models
- Design experiments and metrics to drive risk and pricing decisions
- Partner with engineering and product teams to architect automated underwriting systems
- Identify business opportunities to improve growth and profitability via improvements to our underwriting posture
Requirements
- Statistical Reasoning
- Approach data analysis with a critical, intellectually honest eye
- Design concise metrics that guide decision making
- Employ robust experimental design and causal inference methods
- Develop valid and predictive machine learning models
- Business Acumen
- Identify and effectively prioritize business problems
- Solve business problems using appropriate data science techniques
- Anticipate the impact of your work on our financial performance, customers, and compliance obligations
- Engineering Mindset
- Write legible, reliable, and tested code
- Build or source tools to boost the team’s efficiency
- Architect technical systems that are highly scalable, reliable, and observable
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Model Parafin’s values of efficiency, intellectual honesty, accountability, and empathy
- Build trusted relationships with stakeholders
- Document work, seek feedback, and share learnings proactively
- Focused Execution
- Prioritize high-impact use of your time
- Scope projects rigorously
- Act with urgency
Benefits
- Equity grant
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- Work from home flexibility
- Unlimited PTO
- Commuter benefits
- Free lunches
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
statistical reasoningdata analysisexperimental designcausal inferencemachine learningdata science techniquesscalable systems architecturereliable codepredictive modelingmetrics design
Soft Skills
business acumenproblem prioritizationleadershipcollaborationintellectual honestyaccountabilityempathyrelationship buildingfeedback seekingfocused execution