Staff Data Scientist

SoFi

Staff Data Scientist at SoFi developing machine learning models and mentoring team members. Identifying business opportunities and collaborating with stakeholders in the financial services sector.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $250,080 - $275,088 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudETLPythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify high impact business opportunities to help members achieve their financial goals
Mentor and guide data scientists in the team by promoting best practices, strong technical decisions, coding standards, and thorough documentation
Develop and apply machine learning models to solve business problems
Evaluate and interpret the results of data analysis
Build strong relationships with stakeholders and present insights on a regular cadence communicating findings to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Design and implement data collection
Build data pipelines to deploy production level datasets
Collaborate with cross functional teams and business leader to understand needs and offer data driven solutions
Participate in internal team Knowledge sharing session and willingness to mentor junior Data Scientists in the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (any field) or related quantitative discipline
Three (3) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation
Special Skill Requirements: (1.) Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML); (2.) Natural Language Processing (NLP); (3.) Time Series Forecasting; (4.) ETL Pipelines; (5.) AWS (Sagemaker, S3, EMR); (6.) Advanced clustering; (7.) Data Visualization; (8.) A/B testing; (9.) Collaboration with cross-functional partners; (10.) Leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingTime Series ForecastingETL PipelinesData VisualizationA/B TestingAdvanced Clustering

Soft Skills

MentoringCollaborationCommunicationLeadership

Certifications

Master’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in EngineeringMaster’s degree in related quantitative discipline