Senior Staff AI Scientist

What you'll do

• Lead design and evolution of machine-learning models for user intent, financial journeys, engagement, ranking, and recommendations.
• Set technical direction and standards, mentor scientists, and partner with product and engineering on roadmaps and production systems.
• Identify personalization and targeting opportunities and communicate technical work and business impact to executives and external audiences.

What they ask for

• MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 7+ years of industrial experience in Machine Learning, including 3 years in a technical lead capacity focused on Ranking, Search, or Recommendation Systems.
• Track record designing and deploying high-scale, multi-stage ranking pipelines in production.
• Ability to communicate technical complexity to executives and influence product, business, and engineering stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-objective optimization and ranking systems balancing business and user goals.
• Familiarity with survival analysis, time-series forecasting, or sequence-to-sequence modeling.

Pay

Oakland $226,000 - $306,000 (base salary)

Tools

Machine Learning, Ranking, Search, Recommendation Systems, deep learning, multi-objective optimization, survival analysis, time-series forecasting

AI focus

Builds intent-aware personalization and recommendation systems for financial products, including ranking, targeting, approval odds, and marketing optimization.