Senior Data Scientist
Company: Wealthfront
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: January 12, 2021
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Job Description:
Wealthfront is the leader in the vision to deliver financial
optimization and automation to everyone. Data and its proper use is
crucial to that vision and the data science team plays a
fundamental role in understanding and interpreting those data
sources. The Wealthfront data science team creates data products to
deliver optimized and personalized financial advice, develops best
in class investment algorithms, and analyzes our rich financial and
behavioral data to make key business decisions. The team draws from
a variety of backgrounds in Computer Science & Engineering,
Statistics, Economics, Math, Operations Research, and Financial
Engineering. We derive strength from this diversity and are
constantly learning and teaching each other in a down-to-earth and
dynamic environment. We are neither too big where you would be just
another cog in the system, nor are we too small that none of our
efforts can be realized. We are seeking an experienced data
scientist with a solid foundation in statistics and machine
learning to join Wealthfront. The primary responsibility of this
role is to provide sustainable, long-term data science tools and
solutions to quantify and address complex problems across the
various stakeholders of the company. Such solutions must balance
the pragmatic needs of the business and the demands of a rigorous
analysis; part of this balance involves using the simplest tools
and models to get the job done, and when using more involved
methods, fully accepting the tradeoffs between complexity and
performance. Secondary responsibilities of the role involves
supporting more ad hoc, short-term data science related needs of
the organization.ResponsibilitiesUnderstand a business problem,
frame it in statistical/mathematical/data science terms, and
propose a solution that balances pragmatism and rigorBuilding
statistical and machine learning models for both statistical
inference and predictionCollaborate with other teams (data
engineering, product, design, marketing, and compliance) and have
the ability to translate their amorphous problems into a data
science contextProactively and independently come up with new
projects based on the needs of the stakeholder groups, and ability
to abstract problems common to multiple areas with a unified
solution/viewTechnically mentor and guide of junior membersPresent
technical results to a broad audienceRequirementsBachelor---s or
Master---s in statistics, math, applied math, physics, economics,
biostatistics, computer science or related area3 years of working
experience with data mining, statistical analyses, and model
building/machine learning applicationsStrong understanding of both
traditional statistical methods (e.g., linear regression) as well
as more modern data science models (e.g., gradient boosted
machines) and their respective tradeoffs.Excellent theoretical
foundation in statistics, probability/mathematicsProgramming
fluency in Python or R or similar scripting languageStrong
presentation skills and ability to communicate technical content to
an audience with various backgroundsEveryone across the financial
spectrum deserves to live secure and rewarding lives. In order to
successfully serve clients across the United States, the
Wealthfront team is focused on hiring team members with a diverse
range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We are an equal
opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not
discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national
origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran
status, or disability status. About WealthfrontWealthfront is a
nextgen banking and investing service. We offer high-interest
checking with our Cash Account, help you build your net worth with
automated investing, automate your savings strategy with our
service Autopilot, and give you a single view of your finances with
our intuitive mobile app.Our ultimate vision is to optimize and
automate all of our clients--- finances and build what we call
Self-Driving Money------. We want clients to be able to
automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront
account, and let us take care of the rest --- paying their bills,
topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest
based on their specific goals and lifestyle. To get there, we---ll
be focusing the bulk of our efforts on creating a better
alternative to what the banking industry provides. Join us so you
can help us turn this industry on its head and build a service that
our clients don't just like, they love.Palo Alto, CA /Data Science
and Research /Full-time
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