Lead Data Scientist

Smarsh

Lead Data Scientist developing NLP and LLM solutions for compliance at Smarsh. Mentoring junior scientists and addressing financial supervision and regulatory risks.

Posted 6/17/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $166,000 - $214,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerKerasKubernetesMicroservicesNumpyPandasPyTorchScikit-LearnTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collect, analyze, and interpret small/large datasets to uncover meaningful insights to support the development of statistical methods / machine learning algorithms.
Lead the design, training, and deployment of NLP and transformer-based models for financial surveillance and supervisory use cases (e.g., misconduct detection, market abuse, trade manipulation, insider communication).
Development of machine learning models and other analytics following established workflows, while also looking for optimization and improvement opportunities
Data annotation and quality review
Exploratory data analysis and model fail state analysis
Contribute to model governance, documentation, and explainability frameworks aligned with internal and regulatory AI standards.
Client/prospect guidance in machine learning model and analytic fine-tuning/development processes
Provide guidance to junior team members on model development and EDA
Work with Product Manager(s) to intake project/product requirements and translate these to technical tasks within the team’s tooling, technique and procedures
Continued self-led personal development

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong understanding of **financial markets, compliance, surveillance, supervision, or regulatory technology**
Experience with one or more data science and machine/deep learning frameworks and tooling, including scikit-learn, H2O, keras, pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, carot, tidyverse
Command of data science and statistics principles (regression, Bayes, time series, clustering, P/R, AUROC, exploratory data analysis etc…)
Strong knowledge of key programming concepts (e.g. split-apply-combine, data structures, object-oriented programming)
Solid statistics knowledge (hypothesis testing, ANOVA, chi-square tests, etc…)
Knowledge of NLP transfer learning, including word embedding models (gloVe, fastText, word2vec) and transformer models (Bert, SBert, HuggingFace, and GPT-x etc.)
Experience with natural language processing toolkits like NLTK, spaCy, Nvidia NeMo
Knowledge of microservices architecture and continuous delivery concepts in machine learning and related technologies such as helm, Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with Deep Learning techniques for NLP.
Familiarity with LLMs - using ollama & Langchain
Excellent verbal and written skills
Proven collaborator, thriving on teamwork
**Preferred Qualifications**
Master’s or Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a scientific field
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCS, Azure)
Experience with automated supervision/surveillance/compliance tools

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Enterprise
SaaS Smarsh is the global leader in communications data and intelligence, focusing on digital communications compliance and risk management in regulated industries. With over two decades of experience, Smarsh delivers AI-enabled solutions to unlock business insights from communications data at scale. Trusted by 95% of top financial firms and managing billions of messages monthly, Smarsh offers services like chat capture, email archiving, and digital risk surveillance. Their platforms are designed to meet the diverse and evolving needs of financial services, government, healthcare, and other industries, enhancing productivity and ensuring compliance with digital communication governance challenges. Lead Data Scientist 🔥 17 minutes ago 🗽 New York – Remote 💵 $166k - $214k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 📊 Data Scientist 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Collect, analyze, and interpret small/large datasets to uncover meaningful insights to support the development of statistical methods / machine learning algorithms.
Lead the design, training, and deployment of NLP and transformer-based models for financial surveillance and supervisory use cases (e.g., misconduct detection, market abuse, trade manipulation, insider communication).
Development of machine learning models and other analytics following established workflows, while also looking for optimization and improvement opportunities
Data annotation and quality review
Exploratory data analysis and model fail state analysis
Contribute to model governance, documentation, and explainability frameworks aligned with internal and regulatory AI standards.
Client/prospect guidance in machine learning model and analytic fine-tuning/development processes
Provide guidance to junior team members on model development and EDA
Work with Product Manager(s) to intake project/product requirements and translate these to technical tasks within the team’s tooling, technique and procedures
Continued self-led personal development 🎯 Requirements
Strong understanding of **financial markets, compliance, surveillance, supervision, or regulatory technology**
Experience with one or more data science and machine/deep learning frameworks and tooling, including scikit-learn, H2O, keras, pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, carot, tidyverse
Command of data science and statistics principles (regression, Bayes, time series, clustering, P/R, AUROC, exploratory data analysis etc…)
Strong knowledge of key programming concepts (e.g. split-apply-combine, data structures, object-oriented programming)
Solid statistics knowledge (hypothesis testing, ANOVA, chi-square tests, etc…)
Knowledge of NLP transfer learning, including word embedding models (gloVe, fastText, word2vec) and transformer models (Bert, SBert, HuggingFace, and GPT-x etc.)
Experience with natural language processing toolkits like NLTK, spaCy, Nvidia NeMo
Knowledge of microservices architecture and continuous delivery concepts in machine learning and related technologies such as helm, Docker and Kubernetes
Familiarity with Deep Learning techniques for NLP.
Familiarity with LLMs - using ollama & Langchain
Excellent verbal and written skills
Proven collaborator, thriving on teamwork
**Preferred Qualifications**
Master’s or Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, or a scientific field
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCS, Azure)
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Hard Skills & Tools

machine learningdeep learningnatural language processingdata analysisstatistical methodsdata scienceexploratory data analysismodel governancedata annotationmodel deployment

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationteamworkguidanceleadershipself-led developmentproblem-solvingadaptabilitymentorshipclient engagement

Certifications

Master’s degreeDoctor of Philosophy degree