Job Type: Full-time

Remote: Hybrid

SYNTELLECTData ScientistRightProfileTM · Mumbai (Hybrid) · Full time · 2–3 yrsTHE ROLESyntellect is building the intelligence layer for lending in markets where bureau data stops. RightProfileTM — our field AI platform is live across India and East Africa, and expanding into new geographies fast. We need a Senior Data Scientist who operates in two modes simultaneously: driving continuous innovation across our existing suite of AI capabilities, and going out into the field literally sitting with lenders, loan officers, and borrowers to surface the insights that become our next generation of products.WHAT YOU WILL OWNDrive innovation across our existing AI modules — image intelligence, voice-to-structured-data, document pre-underwriting, and multi-signal triangulation — identifying accuracy gaps, introducing new model architectures, and pushing performance benchmarksConduct on-ground customer immersions: accompany field officers, observe loan origination in real conditions, and convert unstructured field knowledge into hypotheses for new product capabilitiesConceptualise and prototype new modules end-to-end — from customer pain-point to proof-of-concept to production — working directly with the CTO and Founder-CEORefine and expand our surrogate income and creditworthiness classification logic across trade segments and geographies, calibrating models to loan officer ground truth rather than bureau proxiesAct as the primary data science liaison with active clients — lead performance reviews, explain model behaviour to credit heads and CXOs, and translate field feedback into a clear improvement roadmapMonitor live deployments across geographies; detect model drift early and ship fixes fast — this is an environment where days matter, not sprintsBuild evaluation frameworks — precision/recall, NPA lift, Gini,



KS — and convert them into ROI narratives that resonate with credit risk and product leadersContribute to research and outcome measurement deliverables for development finance and grant partners, with rigorous, audit-ready data outputsMUST HAVE3+ years in applied ML/data science with shipped, production models — not just researchDeep expertise in at least one of: computer vision, NLP/ASR, or document intelligenceProven ability to present complex model outputs to non-technical audiences credit committees, CXOs, regulatorsComfort going from ambiguous customer observation to structured problem to prototype in compressed timelinesStrong Python and SQL; fluency with cloud-based data pipelines and experiment trackingHigh ownership instinct — you close loops, flag issues early, and do not wait to be chasedSTRONG PLUSMSME, microfinance, or BFSI credit domain knowledgeExperience with low-resource or multilingual modelsFamiliarity with alternative credit scoring and surrogate income methodologiesPrior experience in an early-stage startup — you built from scratch, not inheritedAwareness of AI regulatory and data privacy norms in financial servicesTHE ENVIRONMENTSyntellect is a 12-person team. Decisions happen in hours. You will work directly with the Founder-CEO — who brings nearly three decades of lending experience and the CTO. There are no long approval chains, and no one to hand a problem off to. This role involves both screen time and field time, sometimes in the same week. If you want a clearly scoped data science function inside a large org, this is the wrong role. If you want to build something genuinely new and have your fingerprints on what it becomes, this is it.TECH & TOOLSPythonPyTorch / TensorFlowOpenCVWhisper / ASRHugging FaceSQLFastAPIAWS / GCPMLflowREST APIsReportLabExcel (for clients)Syntellect is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly welcome candidates with lived or professional experience in the markets we serve.. The role is hybrid, based in Mumbai, with periodic travel to client and field sites.

📌 Data Scientist (Mumbai)
🏢 RightProfile™ by Syntellect
📍 Mumbai