Senior Data Scientist (AI/ML/GenAI Specialist)

VantageScore is a leading credit modeling company focused on delivering innovative and inclusive credit scoring solutions. The Senior Data Scientist will play a key role in developing credit scoring models, conducting research, and delivering AI-powered products that enhance consumer engagement with credit.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct advanced research on structured and unstructured data, developing insights to support product management and new product development
• Contribute to the design, development, evaluation, and deployment of machine learning (ML) models, including credit risk and predictive models
• Serve as the team’s expert on GenAI/LLMs, adapting and fine-tuning models and ensuring explainability and compliance
• Drive pilot program analyses, including back-testing, rejection inference, and performance analyses using diverse data sets
• Improve and maintain existing model monitoring processes and develop compelling data visualizations and dashboards to communicate key insights to stakeholders
• Partner with engineers to operationalize models into production systems, ensuring scalability and resilience at high data and inference volumes
• Research and apply emerging AI/ML, GenAI/LLM technologies, staying abreast of state-of-the-art methods, tools, and best practices
• Translate complex analyses into clear, actionable business recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute to thought leadership through white papers, presentations, and insights shared internally and externally