Senior Associate, Data Scientist - Applied AI (Financial Services)

What you'll do

• Partner with data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product managers to deliver Generative AI solutions.
• Build multi-agent systems and RAG pipelines using numeric and textual data.
• Develop AI models and pipelines through context engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, validation, and deployment.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field plus 2 years of data analytics experience, or a master’s degree in a quantitative field or an MBA with a quantitative concentration.
• Hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
• Experience building, validating, and backtesting models, including statistical and machine learning methods.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a STEM field or PhD in a STEM field.
• Experience with Python, Scala, or R; machine learning; SQL; or AI, Information Retrieval, Deep Learning, or NLP.

Pay

McLean, VA: $135,600 - $154,800 USD base salary; Plano, TX: $123,300 - $140,700 USD base salary

Tools

Python, PyTorch, LangChain, AWS, Spark, Vector Databases, Scala, R

AI focus

Build Generative AI solutions, multi-agent systems, and RAG pipelines; handle context engineering, fine-tuning, evaluation, validation, and deployment.