Senior Credit AI Scientist (Consumer Risk)

Requirements

  • Advanced Degree (Ph.D. / MS) in Computer Science, Data Science, AI, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or a related quantitative discipline
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  • 3-6 years of work experience in AI Science / Machine Learning and related areas
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  • Authoritative knowledge of Python and SQL
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  • Relevant work experience in fintech credit risk, with deep understanding of payment systems, money movement products, banking, and lending
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  • Experience leveraging credit bureau, tax and cash flow data in credit risk model development
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  • Experience with and deep understanding of developing, deploying, monitoring and maintaining a variety of machine learning techniques, including but not limited to, deep learning, tree-based models, reinforcement learning, clustering, time series, causal analysis, and natural language processing
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  • Deep understanding of credit risk modeling concepts, including PD calibration, reject inference, adverse action logic, and risk segmentation
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  • Ability to quickly develop a deep statistical understanding of large, complex datasets
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  • Expertise in designing and building efficient and reusable data pipelines and framework for machine learning models
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  • Strong business problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
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  • Ambitious, results oriented, hardworking, team player, innovator and creative thinker
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  • (Desirable) Proficiency in deep learning ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc
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  • (Desirable) Work experience with public cloud platforms (especially GCP or AWS) and workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow
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  • (Desirable) Strong background in MLOps infrastructure and tooling, particularly Vertex AI or AWS SageMaker, including pipelines, automated retraining, monitoring, and version control
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  • (Desirable) Experience with experimentation design and analysis, including A/B testing and statistical analysis

What the job involves

  • Intuit’s Consumer Group, including TurboTax and Credit Karma, empowers millions of individuals to take control of their finances. TurboTax simplifies tax preparation and enables our customers to file with confidence
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  • By harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence (AI), we continuously innovate and evolve our consumer offerings to deliver even greater value
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  • As we expand into Consumer Lending within the Consumer Group, Intuit Credit Karma is looking for an innovative, experienced, and hands-on Senior AI Scientist to join our Consumer Risk AI Science team
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  • In this role, you’ll develop cutting-edge credit risk AI/ML models for new lending products
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  • Join a collaborative and inventive team of AI scientists and machine learning engineers where your work will have a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of customers
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  • Contribute to the credit risk AI science initiatives for the new and evolving Money product offerings focusing on the lending domain, including complete hands-on ownership of the model lifecycle, sharing ownership of success and key results at the program-level, and driving the data strategy across all involved teams
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  • Design, build, deploy, evaluate, defend, and monitor machine learning models to predict credit risk for various short-term lending products (e.g., tax refund advances, BNPL, installment loans, single payment loans, and early wage access)
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  • Collaborate with credit policy, product and fraud risk teams to ensure models align with business goals and product offering to drive actionable lending decisions
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  • Build efficient and reusable data pipelines for feature generation, model development, scoring, and reporting using Python, SQL, and both commercially available and proprietary Machine Learning and AI infrastructures
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  • Deploy models in a production environment in collaboration with other AI scientists and machine learning enginers
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  • Ensure model fairness, interpretability, and compliance with FCRA, ECOA, and other relevant regulatory frameworks
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  • Contribute to the evolution of our data and machine learning infrastructure within the Intuit ecosystem to improve efficiency and effectiveness of AI science solutions
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  • Research and implement practical and creative machine learning and statistical approaches suitable for our fast-paced, growing environment
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  • What’s great about the role:
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  • Solve hard, meaningful problems giving customers access to their hard-earned money alongside fun, smart people
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  • Experience professional growth and encourage growth throughout the team
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  • Work cross functionally (with executives, engineering, policy & rules, product, analytics, operations and other AI science teams) to ensure efficient and effective use of data science in ways that make an immediate, substantial, and sustainable impact
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