Senior Data Scientist leading production machine learning work on customer lifetime value, conversion propensity, lead scoring, and recommendation systems. Hands-on role building on Databricks and MLflow, with Python and SQL and frameworks such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, and PyTorch. Foundational member of a new team partnering with Data Engineering, Product, and Marketing.
At NerdWallet, our mission is to provide clarity for all of life's financial decisions. Data Science plays a critical role in delivering on that mission, helping us better understand our consumers, personalize their experiences, and connect them with the financial products that best meet their needs.
We’re growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist (Applied ML) to join us as a foundational member of our new team. You’ll help shape and advance our machine learning capabilities across consumer personalization, predictive modeling, and performance marketing, with a real voice in how we work from day one. Together, we’re building an inclusive, supportive team culture where we lift each other up and succeed together to drive business impact across the organization.
In this role, you will lead the development of production-grade machine learning solutions that power some of NerdWallet's most critical business decisions. From predicting customer lifetime value and scoring incoming leads in real time to developing recommendation engines that connect consumers with the right financial products, your work will have a direct impact on how we acquire, engage, and monetize our customer relationships.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role for someone with deep expertise in applied machine learning, production ML systems, and the Databricks ecosystem. As a foundational member of the team, you’ll partner closely with Data Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Analytics to translate complex business problems into scalable ML solutions, while helping establish the technical standards and best practices for machine learning across NerdWallet.
Where you can make an impact:
Build Predictive Models That Drive Business Growth
Advance Personalization & Recommendation Systems
Establish Best-in-Class ML Practices
Your experience:
Where:
What we offer:
Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)
Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)
Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)
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NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.
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Compensation: $136K - $252K
