Lead ML Scientist as part of the India Seller Risk ML team at PayPal
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Your way to impact
- You will actively partner with Risk Strategy teams and build cutting-edge ML models that enable frictionless experience for our good sellers, while minimizing the losses from bad actors in the system.
Your day-to-day
- Work with business partners and stakeholders to understand the business, formulate the problems, come up with the solutions and communicate them back effectively to non-technical audience.
- Lead complex, multifunctional data science projects
- Design, develop and implement real-time, highly complex advance machine learning models to solve business problems.
- Work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using standard tools such as Python, R, H2O, Hadoop and SQL
- Collaborate with engineers to implement models on one of the best data platforms in the industry.
- Analyze data to identify trends, perform root cause analysis and test hypotheses.
- Communicate complex concepts and the results of the models and analyses to technical and non-technical audience.
What you need to bring
- Bachelors/Masters/Ph D in Computer Science/Data Science with 4+ years of practical experience in building ML models at scale.
- Robust problem-solving and communication skills
- Proven track record of building and implementing machine learning solutions
- Experience in leading cross-functional, highly complex Data Science projects
- Familiar with various Machine Learning algorithms and Statistical methods.
- Strong coding knowledge in Python or other common languages used in ML.
- Have a passion for working on big data and professional experience in data mining, statistical analysis, predictive modelling and data manipulation.
- Ability to deal with large amount of data and fluency with SQL or SQL-like tools.
- Financial services or eCommerce experience a big plus